Eddington ratio ($λ_{\rm EDD}$)

Think of the Eddington ratio like the number of steps a dancer can do per minute.

Technical definition

The Eddington ratio is a dimensionless quantity that measures the accretion rate onto a supermassive black hole as a fraction of the Eddington limit, typically ranging from 0.01 to 1.

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