Submission + - What Shape Is the Universe? A New Study Suggests We've Got It All Wrong (quantamagazine.org) 1
An anonymous reader writes: A provocative paper published today in the journal Nature Astronomy argues that the universe may curve around and close in on itself like a sphere, rather than lying flat like a sheet of paper as the standard theory of cosmology predicts. The authors reanalyzed a major cosmological data set and concluded that the data favors a closed universe with 99% certainty — even as other evidence suggests the universe is flat.
