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Name: HLX-1
Alternate names: ESO 243-49 HLX-1, Hyper-Luminous X-ray source 1
Category: Intermediate Mass Black Hole (~20,000 solar masses)
Distance from Earth: 290 million light years
First Discovered: September 23-24, 2010
Discovered by: NASA, ESA, Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney
Galactic Longitude: 292.91°
Galactic Latitude: -70.68°
Position of HLX-1 in galaxy ESO 243-49 as indicated and circled on the above compass image (https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/11/2992-Image.html)