The Terrell-Penrose effect, predicted in 1959, suggests that objects moving at speeds close to that of light appear rotated.

Physicists from the University of Vienna have for the first time reproduced the optical illusion known as the Terrell-Penrose ...

This mind-bending visual twist, known as the Terrell–Penrose effect, was first proposed in 1959 by physicists James Terrell ...

Fast-moving objects don’t always look the way you’d expect. When something travels near the speed of light, strange things ...

It's an optical illusion. Published recently as the ... of light by gravitational fields is also known as an Einstein ring because Albert Einstein predicted it. His general theory of relativity ...

They found that the Lorentz contraction—a key part of Einstein’s theory of special relativity—doesn’t actually change how a fast object looks in a photograph. Instead, the object seems ...