The latest result in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search (SQLS) has set the first cosmological constraints on negative-mass compact objects and Ellis wormholes. There are no multiple images lensed by the above two exotic objects for ∼50, 000 distant quasars in the SQLS data. Therefore, an upper bound is put on the cosmic abundances of these lenses. The number density of negative-mass compact objects is n < 10 −8 (10 −4 ) h 3 Mpc −3 at the mass scale | M | > 10 15 (10 12 ) M ☉ , which corresponds to the cosmological density parameter |Ω| < 10 −4 at the galaxy and cluster mass range | M | = 10 12–15 M ☉ . The number density of the Ellis wormhole is n < 10 −4 h 3 Mpc −3 for a range of the throat radius a = 10–10 4 pc, which is much smaller than the Einstein ring radius.
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