Articles for tag: Cosmic topology, Cosmology explained, Donut-shaped universe, Shape of the universe, Universe geometry

two very bright blue objects in the dark sky

Is the Universe Actually Shaped Like a Donut?

Suhail Ahmed

It’s a question that sounds like a prank from a late-night dorm debate, yet it’s quietly sitting at the frontier of cosmology: could space itself loop back on itself like a cosmic donut? The mystery is rooted in a real scientific puzzle – how to describe the universe’s global shape when we can only observe ...