This is a catalogue of dormant (non-accreting) black holes detected within binaries and in isolation.
It is complementary to the catalgoue of black holes in X-ray transients (
Blackcat
) and the catalogue of black hole masses
detected in gravitational wave events (
LIGO/VIRGO mass plot
).
It was created during The Renaissance of Stellar Black-Hole Detections in The Local Group meeting at the Lorentz Centre, June 26-30 2023.
The background image is an artist’s impression of VFTS 243, a massive binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud which hosts a dormant black hole. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada.
Binaries
|
ID
|
RA
|
DEC
|
PORB
|
MAG
|
M
BH
|
Discovery Channel
|
Status
|
|
|
degrees
|
degrees
|
day
|
|
M
☉
|
|
|
|
ID
|
RA
|
DEC
|
PORB
|
MAG
|
M
BH
|
Discovery Channel
|
Status
|
|
|
degrees
|
degrees
|
day
|
|
M
☉
|
|
|
|
GAIA BH1
|
262.17120816
|
-0.58109202
|
185.59±0.05
|
13.77 (G)
|
9.62±0.18
|
Astrometric
|
Confirmed
|
|
GAIA BH2
|
207.56971624
|
-59.2390050
|
1276.7±0.6
|
12.28 (G)
|
8.94±0.34
|
Astrometric
|
Confirmed
|
|
GAIA BH3
|
294.8278502301
|
14.9309190869
|
4253.1±98.5
|
11.23 (G)
|
32.7±0.82
|
Astrometric
|
Confirmed
|
|
HD130298
|
222.3906878085
|
-56.42735406085
|
14.62959 ±0.000854
|
9.12 (G)
|
>7.70
|
Spectroscopic
|
Confirmed
|
|
NGC 1850 BH1
|
77.19458
|
-68.76544
|
5.0402±0.0004
|
16.136 (V)
|
>4.71
|
Spectroscopic
|
Candidate
|
|
NGC 3201_12560
|
154.40454
|
-46.41537
|
167.01±0.09
|
17.52 (G)
|
>3.9
|
Spectroscopic
|
Confirmed
|
|
VFTS 243
|
84.53503
|
-69.15527
|
10.4031±0.0004
|
15.236 (G)
|
10.1±2.0
|
Spectroscopic
|
Confirmed
|
Isolated
|
ID
|
M
BH
|
Discovery Channel
|
|
|
M
☉
|
|
|
ID
|
M
BH
|
Discovery Channel
|
|
|
M
☉
|
|
|
OGLE-2011-BLG-0462
|
7.1±1.3
|
Lensing
|