Sagittarius

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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

Don’t take personally the Sagittarius penchant to run away at a moment’s notice to a faraway land promising the stimulation they not just crave but require to fuel their hyperactive brains.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 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

While Sagittarius A* could be compared to a sleeping volcano, some SMBHs grow extremely rapidly by engulfing astronomic amounts of matter.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 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