Synthetic catalog of black holes in the Milky Way

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We present an open-access database which includes a synthetic catalog of black holes in the Milky Way.

• To calculate evolution of single and binary stars we used updated population synthesis code StarTrack.
• We applied a new model of star formation history and chemical evolution of Galactic disk, bulge and halo synthesized from observational and theoretical data.
• We find that at the current moment Milky Way (disk+bulge+halo) contains about 1.2 x 10^8 single black holes with average mass of about 14 Msun and 9.3 x 10^6 BHs in binary systems with average mass of 19 Msun.