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In the December 18 edition of Nature, the team argues that the quadruple lensing effect at J1004+4112 is caused by the gravitational influence of a cluster of galaxies about 6.2 billion light-years away. They believe that because the visible mass of this cluster cannot account for the observed 14.62-arcsecond separation, high concentrations of intervening material in the form of unseen cold dark matter must be causing this unprecedented wide splitting.