A question arose-

a question arose - concerning specifically:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Quasar_3C_273.jpg

  
In specific Gorohovschi asks whether this is perhaps evidence of gravitational waves. Audrey says:

I've got a noobs question. In this picture http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Quasar_3C_273.jpg one can see waves similar to waves on a pond.

Is there an explanation for them? Could that be due to gravitational waves?

Thank you,
Andrey
 

The answer is no because - even though the distances are great (---> spacetime warping is expected at least 10^- 15 , on down thru say -22) nothing interacts with matter here in the fashion we can see in visible light or at least our IR/RF telescopes (though relatively soon we will begin looking with other devices/satellites, stay tuned). IF we had say  tremendous fields of quarks or a sea of high energy protomatter, as many cosmologists speculate (I am one of them) - then we would - with the proper measuring devices - see phenomena emanating from this and certainly other ( very old, 100,000 years after birth of current universe) sources.