The Universe may be a Sphere, and that’s a Problem
Nov 7 · 5 min read
Could the Universe be a sphere, rather than flat? A new examination of data from a defunct satellite poses a mystery that could result in a cosmological crisis.
For years, cosmologists have pondered the overall shape of the Universe, developing their ideas by merging data from a wide range of studies. Doing so produced the standard cosmological model, which suggests the Universe is flat. However, a new look at the cosmic background radiation — the echo of the first light of the Universe — shows everything around us may have a closed shape…


