A Figure-Eight in Deep Space: Hubble Image Flags Gravity Warping Distant Galaxies
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured MACS0329-0211, a massive galaxy cluster whose gravity bends distant light into arcs, curves, and a bright central figure-eight shape.
Key facts
MACS0329-0211 sits at a redshift of about 0.4503, meaning its light left when the universe was roughly 8 billion to 9 billion years old
A 2024 kinematic study using Large Telescope spectroscopy estimated the cluster’s mass at about 9.2 × 10^14 solar masses within a radius of about 1.71 megaparsecs, or roughly 5.6 million light-years
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured MACS0329-0211, a massive galaxy cluster whose gravity bends distant light into arcs, curves, and a bright central figure-eight shape
The image, released June 12, 2026, shows what NASA described as looking “somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive.” The cluster is packed with galaxies bound together by gravity
Summary
NASA released Hubble’s MACS0329-0211 image on June 12, 2026. Hubble data may help NASA researchers map dark matter and early galaxies. The image, released June 12, 2026, shows what NASA described as looking “somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive.” The cluster is packed with galaxies bound together by gravity. MACS0329-0211 contains large elliptical galaxies, thin edge-on spiral and lenticular galaxies, and face-on spirals with visible arms.