Universe curved like giant inflated balloon: study. A study of data from the cosmic microwave background, which is the faint echo of the 'Big Bang,' concludes that the universe is not flat and may ...

Now, cosmologist Joseph Silk thinks the same might be true of the entire universe. Together with colleagues in Italy and the United Kingdom, Silk recently analyzed data from the Planck Collaboration, ...

In a flat universe, ... with the Planck cosmic microwave background spectra now preferring a positive curvature at more than the 99% confidence level,” the study states. ...

However, despite the excellent constraints of the CMB, it does not necessarily follow that the Universe absolutely must be flat; some amount of curvature is still permitted. Supernova Cosmology ...

Multiple observations, especially from the cosmic microwave background (the flash of light released when our universe was only 380,000 years old), have firmly established that we live in a flat ...

While a curved universe seems very unlikely, only more data and more digging in will settle the dispute. Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

One of the easiest ways to do this is with the cosmic microwave background, or CMB. This is light that was emitted when our universe was only 380,000 years old and when it expanded and cooled from ...

The universe has all sorts of deformations in space-time where it varies from the perfectly flat. Any place where there's mass or energy, there's a corresponding bending of space-time — that's ...

It suggests that the CMB actually supports relatively simple euclidean (a.k.a. flat) topologies, suggesting that even more complex structures are possible. Related Story The Universe Could Be ...

A flat universe agrees with both observation and theory, so the idea now sits at the heart of modern cosmology. The problem is that, unlike a spherical universe, a flat one can be infinite — or not.