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Is the 2008 NASA/ESA double Einstein ring actually a ringhole signature?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-01-22 v1

Abstract

It is argued that whereas the Shatskiy single rings produced by the gravitational inner field of a spherically symmetric wormhole could not be used to identify the presence of such tunnelings in the universe or the existence of a parallel universe, the image which the inner gravitational field of a ringhole with toroidal symmetry would allow us to detect from a single luminous source is that of two concentric bright rings, and this is a signature that cannot be attributed to any other single astronomical object in whichever universe it may be placed. At the beginning of 2008 the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revealed a never-before-seen phenomenon in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. It is also argued that such a discovery may well be attributed to the first astronomical ringhole found in the universe. After all, a ringhole is a perfectly valid solution to the Einstein equations and the stuff which makes it possible is becoming more and more familiar in cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.1001.3778,
  title  = {Is the 2008 NASA/ESA double Einstein ring actually a ringhole signature?},
  author = {Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.3778},
  year   = {2010}
}

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