Abell 3266 is a

galaxy cluster A galaxy cluster, or a cluster of galaxies, is a structure that consists of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together by gravity, with typical masses ranging from 1014 to 1015 solar masses. They are the second-l ...

in the southern sky. It is part of the

Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster The Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster, is a massive supercluster spanning around 550 million light-years. It has a mass of around 1017 solar masses, similar to that of the Laniakea Supercluster, which houses the Milky Way. It is centered on coord ...

. The galaxy cluster is one of the largest in the southern sky, and one of the largest mass concentrations in the nearby universe. The Department of Physics at the

University of Maryland, Baltimore County The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a public research university in Baltimore County, Maryland. It has a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students, 61 undergraduate majors, over 92 graduate programs (38 master, 25 doctoral, ...

discovered that a large mass of gas is hurtling through the cluster at a speed of 750 km/s (466 miles/second). The mass is billions of solar masses, approximately 3 million

light-year A light-year, alternatively spelled light year, is a large unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equivalent to about 9.46 trillion kilometers (), or 5.88 trillion miles ().One trillion here is taken to be 1012 ...

s in diameter and is the largest of its kind discovered as of June 2006.XMM-Newton spots the greatest of great balls of fire
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References

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Abel 3266 on SIMBAD
* Horologium Supercluster Galaxy clusters 3266 Abell richness class 2 Reticulum (constellation) {{galaxy-cluster-stub

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