GRS 1915+105

GRS 1915-105 is an X-ray binary detected by GRANAT X-ray satellite's WATCH instrument in 1992. The accreting compact object is a stellar-mass black hole which is a microquasar (i.e., a black hole displaying characteristics of a quasar, only at a smaller scale). Jets have been detected. It is of research interest as one of the few such systems identified.