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sagittarius a* is a dumb name

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milkyway galaxy is named Sagittarius A* (pronounced Sagittarius A Star). It's named after the Sagittarius constellation and the asterisk denotes that its discovery was "exciting", in reference to excited-state atoms. (excited Helium is He*)

This name is obviously very dumb because it's not a heckin' star, so why do I have to say "star" in it's name?. Imagine if the sun's name inexplicably was "Sol Blackhole" but it's not a black hole, that would be needlessly confusing and dumb.

It's the most important blackhole in the universe as far as we're concerned. It should get a real name, like Milkydestination or Gigantarius A° (pronounced Gigantarius A Hole).

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my hungry ass could never work at astrophysics