What Is the Eddington Limit for Any Object

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Multiple Choice

What is the Eddington limit for any object?

• A) The mass beyond which the gravitational force on an accretion disk overcomes the rotational motion due to conservation of angular momentum
• B) The speed of light
• C) The maximum pressure that the electrons,nuclei,and photons in the object can withstand before the object collapses into a black hole
• D) The luminosity beyond which the outward force due to radiation pressure on matter exceeds the inward force due to gravity

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