HLX-1 (hyper-luminous X-ray source 1), lies in a galaxy called ESO 243-49 about 300 million light-years away. HLX-1 was discovered by chance in 2009, because it stood out as a very bright X-ray source.
Before the discovery of HLX-1, scientists had evidence for only supermassive black holes ones a million to a billion times the mass of the Sun and stellar mass ones, three to thirty times the mass of the Sun.
As per the new study, the size of HLX-1 is around 20000 times the mass of our sun which makes it an intermediate mass black hole.
Black Holes:
Black holes are areas where the matter is so densely squeezed into a
small space, that it makes gravity pull strongly enough to stop light
from escaping
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