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

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

Many stars are observed near the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* at the center of our Galaxy.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

In the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, at the very center of our galaxy, sits a supermassive black hole that weighs as much as two-and-a-half million suns.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife