title: Stellar-mass black holes and ultraluminous x-ray sources.
abstract: We review the likely population, observational properties, and broad implications of stellar-mass black holes and ultraluminous x-ray sources. We focus on the clear empirical rules connecting accretion and outflow that have been established for stellar-mass black holes in binary systems in the past decade and a half. These patterns of behavior are probably the keys that will allow us to understand black hole feedback on the largest scales over cosmological time scales.
authors.affiliation: Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. r.fender@soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fender
authors.forename: Tomaso
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Belloni