Type

Intermediate mass

Location

In the constellation Phoenix

Distance

290 million light-years (90 megaparsecs)

Mass

Roughly 20,000 times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly equal to the diameter of the planet Saturn

Discovery Methods

• Detection of an accretion disk

Hubble Space Telescope view of the galaxy ESO 243. The circle indicates the location of HLX-1. [NASA/ESA/S.Farrell (Univ. Sydney)]

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