Intermediate-mass Black Hole Discovered
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the first ever intermediate-mass black hole to be discovered with evidence of a cluster of blue stars orbiting. It is located at a distance of 290,000,000 light-years on the edge of the galaxy ESO 243-49. Doubted HLX-1 (Hyper-Luminous X-ray source 1) the black hole has a mass of about 20,000 solar masses.
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