How did Captain Marvel do this without dying?

Question

In Captain Marvel we learn that Carol has the power of an Infinity Stone essentially because she was near it when it blew up so the power went into her.

Why did this not kill her?

We've seen many times when people use or wield just one Stone, they get torn apart. Even Peter Quill who was half-Celestial was getting torn apart, just slower than regular humans. And even if she wasn't "wielding" it, I'd assume absorbing the power of an Infinity Stone would be equal to or greater than a lightning bolt or something-it's pure energy.

The only thing that might be relevant to this is that she has Kree blood in her but even so, I don't know anywhere where it says Kree can withstand the power of an Infinity Stone and not get torn apart/die.

Answer 1

There are few things at play here, Carol absorbs the energy from the light speed engine that powered the ship not from the Tesseract itself. This energy is then likely less fatal than if she'd absorbed power directly from the Space Stone.

Talos: She wanted you to help us find the core.

Carol: Well, I already destroyed it.

Talos: No, you destroyed the engine. The core that powered it is in a remote location.

Even if she did get the energy directly from the Tesseract, it was specifically designed so that "inferior species" could use the Infinity Stone inside of it. Therefore, the energy from the Space Stone was already safer than if it came directly from it.

...when an inferior species makes direct contact with the Stones, they’re ripped apart by the sheer force of the thing. It’s a glorious and frightening sight. In order to protect these beings, the Stones were given defensive casings: the Orb for the Power Stone, the Scepter for the Mind Stone, the Tesseract for the Space Stone, the Eye of Agamotto for the Time Stone, and”—his voice hardened—“as you know, the Aether for the Reality Stone.”

_{Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest Vol.1}

Lastly, after the accident Yon-Rogg gives his Kree blood to her and Kree blood has regenerative capabilities. This is assuming he’s telling the truth which he appears to be as Carol did have blue blood in the training scene.

Yon-Rogg: That's my blood that's coursing through her veins.

_{Captain Marvel}

Agent Coulson was injected with that, and literally minutes later, his wounds showed signs of cellular regeneration.

_{Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Season 2 Episode 7, "The Writing on the Wall"}

It's also worth noting that the Kree appear to be able to hold the Infinity Stones perfectly fine without being ripped apart, see Ronan in Guardians of the Galaxy, so having their blood would certainly have helped her after the fact.

Answer 2

The power discharge that changed her is coming from a broken light speed engine, harnessing power from the Space Stone while the Stone is contained in the Tessaract. The end result of this is clearly that the energy Carol is hit by is changed in some way so as not to be fatal. There is plenty of precedent in the MCU for tools and containers allowing safe(r) handling of Infinity Stones, e.g. Loki's Scepter, the Eye of Agamotto and even the gauntlet itself.

It's also worth noting that her power comes from the Space Stone, but it isn't the power of the Space Stone. She still has her power after the Space Stone is destroyed, and she doesn't appear to be able to teleport (a rather obvious canonical power of the Space Stone).