Microquasars

I.F. Mirabel
Centre d'Etudes de Saclay. France

Microquasars are stellar-mass black holes in our own Galaxy that mimic, 
on a smaller scale, many of the phenomena seen in quasars. Their discovery 
has opened the way for a new understanding of the connection between 
accretion of matter onto black holes and the origin of relativistic jets. 
I will review the open questions and future perspectives 
in this new field of research.