Sagittarius
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Coughlin notes that Hills capture may also be responsible for some of the stars now orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
"Decades carefully tracking stars orbiting our galaxy's central black hole, Sagittarius A*, have led to this breakthrough discovery," Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
A Gemini sun is known as restless and analytical, a Sagittarius moon brings an optimistic outlook and a rising Leo delivers confidence and charisma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
The supermassive black hole astronomers recently found is a billion times more massive than the Sun and a hundred times more massive than Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
From Space Scoop ● Mar. 27, 2025
There’s a tattoo of Sagittarius on his left bicep and what looks like a Franz Marc blue horse on his right shoulder that twists all the way up his neck.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
To them and to the whole world—excepting Jellybrand's and you—we are the Sagittariuses of Sagittarius Lodge, people at ease, sir, living upon our competence beside the Mouse.
From The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Smythe Hichens
Lady Enid pretended not to hear and tried to hasten with the astronomer towards the Sagittariuses.
From The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Smythe Hichens
Paris found that they were both in the vicinity of Chi Sagittarii on the day that the ‘Wow!’ signal was detected.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
Comet 266P/Christensen will pass the Chi Sagittarii star group again on 25 January 2017, while 335P/Gibbs will make its passage on 7 January 2018.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
While pointing towards a grouping of stars called Chi Sagittarii on 15 August, he received a powerful blast of radio waves that lasted for 72 seconds.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
Late on June 25, the distant dwarf planet Pluto will be near the constellation Sagittarius, off to the left of the faint naked-eye star Omicron Sagittarii.
From National Geographic
One of its stars, α, is probably referred to by Al-Sufi in his description of Sagittarius; it lies nearly midway between β Sagittarii and α Gruis, and is the brightest star of the constellation.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
