Super-Eddington black hole accretion: Polish doughnuts and slim disks

• 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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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)

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