What Are the Key Characteristics and Locations of Stellar Black Holes?

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I'm still a bit new here and haven't studied much astronomy (being an electronics dude) so can anyone give me a good link(s) for what we know about existing black holes. That is size, location, and other physical characteristics of those we have discovered so far.

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DarioC said:
I'm still a bit new here and haven't studied much astronomy (being an electronics dude) so can anyone give me a good link(s) for what we know about existing black holes. That is size, location, and other physical characteristics of those we have discovered so far. Hope this isn't too far off the subject.

Thanks DC
Here's a useful wiki link for starters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_holes
 
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DarioC said:
I'm still a bit new here and haven't studied much astronomy (being an electronics dude) so can anyone give me a good link(s) for what we know about existing black holes. That is size, location, and other physical characteristics of those we have discovered so far.

This web page looks at stellar mass black holes and their accretion disks in binary systems-

http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/faculty/orosz/web/
 
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