Like, obviously they would die immediately. But I’m wondering, would they be ripped to subatomic shreds? Would they somehow manage to set off a small nuclear explosion? Would they just get cooked as they’re propelled into the void?

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    Yeah, we’re pretty much short a variable here. If we had density, mass flux or (some rough measure of) diameter we could calculate the others, but we don’t. That might be because it’s actually unknown - they’re all really far away. In any case, I doubt it’s narrow and dense enough to really be very matter-like. It’s a particle beam.

    I expect a lot wider too, the jets will diverge of course so it’s going to depend on how far away from the star you’re measuring

    Like I mentioned in my own reply, we’re actually in the beams of multiple (distant) ones right now, just by random chance.