Scientists from the University of Central Lancashire have obtained indirect evidence for the presence of flat planets in the Universe. This is an unstable state, some intermediate variant between planetesimal and protoplanet. It is unlikely that a planet could fully form and retain such a shape, so the existence of flat worlds is still in question.
As explained by Dr Dimitris Stamatellos, in modelling the formation of cosmic bodies, scientists have always defaulted to the idea that the accumulation of matter occurs in the form of a sphere. In this case, the very process of attraction to each other particles of dust and dirt from interstellar space proceeds very unevenly. Researchers used modelling with the help of a supercomputer to test various hypotheses.
