If the electron wasn’t perfectly round, it would imply new hidden particles (quantamagazine.org)

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Or that it's moving at relativistic speeds.

The experiment described in the article uses ultracold atoms (tiny fractions of a Kelvin), so it's not relativistic.

Or that there's some other charge carrier nearby.