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Is there an upper limit to the accretion rate \({\dot M}\), preventing astrophysical black holes to swallow all the matter infalling into them? Many astrophysicists are convinced that the answer to this fundamental question should be: yes, the limit exist and it is given by the standard Eddington accretion rate,
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Abramowicz, M. Super-Eddington Black Hole Accretion:. In: Merloni, A., Nayakshin, S., Sunyaev, R.A. (eds) Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11403913_49
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