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Sagittarius A*

Name: Sagittarius A*
Alternate name: SGR A*
Category: Supermassive Black Hole (4.154 million solar masses)
Distance from Earth: 26,673 light years
First Discovered: February 1974
Discovered by: Bruce Balick, Robert L. Brown
Galactic Longitude: 53.74°
Galactic Latitude: 26.20°

X-ray and infrared image (https://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/sgra_gas/) of the Milky Way galaxy with Sagittarius A* (SGR A*) identified at the center of which.

Image of Sagittarius A* revealed by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2022; by the EHT collaboration

Sources: https://www.constellation-guide.com/sagittarius-a/

https://www.space.com/sagittarius-a

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/supermassive-black-hole-sagittarius/

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