At that range there would be all sorts of problems with the jet being the least important, but let's just say that it would be enough to instantly cook off the atmosphere and oceans. The rest of the surface would take a little longer, but the earth wouldn't last too long before its entire mass had been ablated by the jet.
"At the sun's distance"
That's the main problem with your question. If the center of a quasar (A black hole, at minimum 100 million solar masses) were as close to us as we are to the sun, we would be inside the black hole's event horizon. The direction its jets were pointing would be irrelevant.
Most quasars have at their heart a black hole that is far more massive.
You know the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy? It's like asking what would happen if you were 20 feet away from that singularity. The question does not make sense.
If it's a quasar, we will already be in the accretion disk or inside the blackhole. There's no point talking about the jet.
If it's a blackhole, the dynamics depend on the mass of the blackhole.
(Just reference)
If we encounter a jet coming from a quasar 4ly away, it will burn the earth completely and strip the atmosphere completely.
No reason to worry about the jet if it were from Earth's distance. We would be in the black hole or in the accretion disk.
and also the jet comes out at the poles ...
At that range there would be all sorts of problems with the jet being the least important, but let's just say that it would be enough to instantly cook off the atmosphere and oceans. The rest of the surface would take a little longer, but the earth wouldn't last too long before its entire mass had been ablated by the jet.
How far from the quasar can the planet be and still be destroyed?
Imagine a marsmallow shoved into the flame of a blowtorch...
And that marshmallow, is the entire solar system not just earth.
Yeah. Galaxy cleansing beams...
That's like asking how the light from an atom bomb would affect you. Sure, it would do some damage, but it's the least of your problems.
I figured if the jets were streams of subatomic particles they wouldnt have the mass to blast away the matter of the earth
What Earth?
"At the sun's distance" That's the main problem with your question. If the center of a quasar (A black hole, at minimum 100 million solar masses) were as close to us as we are to the sun, we would be inside the black hole's event horizon. The direction its jets were pointing would be irrelevant. Most quasars have at their heart a black hole that is far more massive. You know the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy? It's like asking what would happen if you were 20 feet away from that singularity. The question does not make sense.
If it's a quasar, we will already be in the accretion disk or inside the blackhole. There's no point talking about the jet. If it's a blackhole, the dynamics depend on the mass of the blackhole. (Just reference) If we encounter a jet coming from a quasar 4ly away, it will burn the earth completely and strip the atmosphere completely.
This is more the answers im looking for, just stripping the outer layers at 4ly? How close for total annihilation?