Sagittarius

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Sagittarius A* contains about 4 million times the mass of the Sun, giving it a powerful gravitational reach that strongly affects nearby objects.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 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

To locate C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, face southwest and look roughly 10 degrees above the horizon to find the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpio.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024

That would be Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way whose mass is about 4 million times that of the sun.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2024

Her- schel had been misled because of the copious amount of obscuring dust in the direction of Sagittarius; he had no way to know of the enormous numbers of stars beyond.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan