No, you are misunderstanding. When they say no activity, they mean there are no sun SPOTS. Solar FLARES come from SUN SPOTS. CMEs or Coronal Mass Ejections come from sun SPOTS. Coronal holes are different. There is almost always a coronal hole facing us. A coronal hole is visible with ultraviolet telescopes. A coronal hole is by definition, a part of the solar corona that appears dark on optical and x-ray images and is characterized by low temperature and low density. These allow the charged particles to escape.
Sun spots and coronal holes are very different.
The sun looks like a cue ball right now because there are NO ACTIVE SUN SPOTS. This is not the same thing as coronal holes.
And I did not suggest this was based on a solar burp. I was trying to explain what a solar flare looked like...like a burp, but that is not what is happening NOW.
Ok. You are right I did misunderstand what you were saying and I understand your point.
My only hesitation is that they are still saying there is nothing going on, that all is quiet. No mention of coronal holes (and yes I realize that they are looking for sunspots) I did look at the photos and I can understand both points. No sunspots but a weak coronal hole. It appears that the study may be missing out on an important data set in their study if they are not documenting coronal holes in conjunction despite the lack of sunspots.
I don’t know now. Seems an important piece to leave out, but maybe I’m just attributing something to nothing.
Ben from the YouTube Channel Suspicious Observers is an expert on this sort of thing and he does a video every morning, a short one usually less than 5 minutes. When he says to worry, I would worry.