Astronomers do come up with imaginative names, the latest being Cloverleaf Quasar (a.k.a. H1413+117). I guess at a push the image produced by the Chandra telescope looks sort of cloverleaf shaped (see below).
NASA/CXC/Penn
State/G.Chartas et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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