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

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

When an object moves extremely fast—close to the speed of light—certain basic assumptions that we take for granted no longer ...

Discover how Einstein’s theory of special relativity reshaped physics by linking space, time, mass, and energy in a universe governed by the speed of light. Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of ...

Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s special relativity could enable a new kind of ...

A particle that lacks the energy to climb a barrier can still appear on the far side, a curiosity known as “quantum tunneling ...

Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity has long baffled and amazed scientists. It explains how objects behave when they move ...

Physicists have demonstrated the Terrell-Penrose effect, which causes an object moving close to the speed of light to warp ...

When an object moves extremely fast – close to the speed ... light – certain basic assumptions that we take for granted no longer apply. This is the central consequence of Albert Einstein's ...

Credit: Fug4s/Getty Images In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, objects traveling close to the speed of light appear flipped over. Another consequence is ...

Now, scientists have succeeded for the first time in reproducing the effect using laser pulses and precision cameras -- at an effective speed ... Einstein's special theory of relativity.