In 2025, researchers in Austria were able to put on display an effect of special relativity that’s been theorized for 100 years. It’s called the Terrell-Penrose effect—also known as Terrell rotation, or the Lampa-Terrell-Penrose effect—and it describes the idea that when an object is traveling at the speed of light, any method of trying to photograph that object will show it to be slightly rotated