Astrophysicist explains: Universe as three-dimensional donut

One approach, offered by Thomas Buchert:

Examining light from the very early universe, Buchert and a team of astrophysicists have deduced that our cosmos may be multiply connected, meaning that space is closed in on itself in all three dimensions like a three-dimensional donut. Such a universe would be finite, and according to their results, our entire cosmos might only be about three to four times larger than the limits of the observable universe, about 45 billion light-years away.

Paul Sutter, “Our universe might be a giant three-dimensional donut, really” at LiveScience

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