MACS J0416.1-2403

MACS J0416.1-2403 is a cluster of galaxies at a redshift of z=0.397 with a mass 160 trillion times the mass of the Sun inside . Its mass out to a radius of was measured as 1.15 × 1015 solar masses. The system was discovered during the Massive Cluster Survey, MACS. This cluster causes gravitational lensing of distant galaxies producing multiple images. In 2015, the galaxy cluster was announced as gravitationally lensing the most distant galaxy ("z" = 12). Based on the distribution of the multiple image copies, scientists have been able to deduce and map the distribution of dark matter.