Planet Earth looks like a perfect sphere from outer space, but that can be deceiving. As a rotating sphere of gas it has flattening at the poles, which you might assume would be the case with our sun, ...

Arxiv – Researchers describe a new system for a society of highly advanced civilizations around a super massive black hole (SMBH), as an advanced Type III “Dyson Sphere,” pointing out an efficient ...

Although there is some flattening of the Earth at the poles, the value of the flattening is about one part in 300, a number that is remarkably close to the one calculated by Isaac Newton. This is ...