The specific accretion rate is proportional to M; and it declines with the mass of the body.

After that, the accretion rates increase dramatically and the remaining 90% of the mass is accumulated in approximately 10,000 years.

If the tau losses extend the lifetimes sufficiently for the accretion rate to overtake the Hawking depletion rate, the holes will become permanent.

Mass accretion rates for these objects are estimated to be around 10 solar masses per year.

Thirteen years later, Sołtan explicitly showed that the luminosity () of quasars was due to the accretion rate of mass onto black holes given by:

The ADAF solutions usually require that the accretion rate is smaller than a few percent of the Eddington limit.

When the accretion rate is sub-Eddington and the opacity very high, the standard thin accretion disc is formed.

The accretion rate of these water droplets is another factor in the hailstone's growth.

The accretion rate therefore becomes .

She read the accretion rate off a side screen.