What Shape Are Black Holes? Yes.

What shape is the event horizon of a black hole? Well, the answer to that question changes if our universe is hiding an extra dimension (or more). Black holes could come in an infinite number of shapes — including a precisely spinning hyper-donut and a family of crumpled up spheres called lens spaces.

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