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

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

Over its 10 billion year life, S0-6 must have travelled more than 50,000 light-years from outside of the Milky Way to reach the vicinity of Sagittarius A*.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

The film will be available to rent, on-demand, starting Dec. 13, the world’s most famous Sagittarius said Monday on Instagram, set to a clip of her performing “Wildest Dreams.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 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