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

Imagine you’re in a car driving across the country watching the landscape. A tree in the distance gets closer to your car, passes right by you, then moves off again in the distance behind you. Of ...

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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. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert ...

So, you’re driving a car at half the speed of light. (Both hands on the wheel, please.) You turn on the headlights. How fast would you see this light traveling? What about a person standing by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have found a way to mimic lightspeed when photographing an object. The method involves stitching together many thin ...

Science fiction authors and readers dream of travelling at the speed of light, but Einstein tells us we can’t. You might think that’s an arbitrary rule, but [FloatHeadPhysics] shows a different way to ...

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Hornof, D., Helm, V., de Dios Rodriguez, E. et al. A snapshot of relativistic motion: visualizing the Terrell-Penrose effect. Commun Phys 8, 161 (2025). https://doi ...