Abell 3266

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Abell 3266 is a galaxy cluster in the southern sky. It is part of the Horologium-Reticulum supercluster. The galaxy cluster is one of the largest in the southern sky, and one of the largest mass concentrations in the nearby universe.

A large mass of gas shaped like a comet, billions of solar masses of it, is hurtling through the cluster at a speed of 750 km/s, was discovered by the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. It is approximately three (3) million light years in diameter, and is the largest of its kind so far discovered (June 2006).

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