An experiment has visualized a prediction about objects traveling at the speed of light known as the Penrose-Terrell Effect, first made over 60 years ago. When objects approach the speed of light ...

In 1959, physicists James Terrell and Roger Penrose (Nobel laureate in 2020) independently concluded that fast-moving objects should appear rotated. However, this effect has never been demonstrated.

The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

They discover that the topological properties of quasicrystals come from periodic patterns in 4D, revolutionizing optics and ...

The experiment may reveal how black holes energize nearby particles and help test theories about exotic fields, including those potentially linked to dark matter.

Scientists have recreated a black hole bomb in the lab, confirming a 50-year-old theory with explosive insights for future energy and fundamental physics.

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated a phenomenon known as the Terrell-Penrose effect, which causes an object moving close to the speed of light to warp before our eyes. The new findings, ...