http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Quasar_3C_273.jpg
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
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.