The French street artist JR has unveiled perhaps his most complex Italian trompe l’oeil illusion piece yet, turning a square outside Milan’s Stazione Centrale railway station into a temporary ...

New research has analyzed human reactions to several optical illusions in which a black mass appears to expand before someone’s very eyes, the New York Times reported. These kinds of static images ...

A video has been circulating on social media of what appears to be a large pit in the left lane of the Kilbourn Avenue entrance ramp to I-43 North right inside the tunnel. Turns out, it was just a ...

Psychologists used illusions that mimic darkness and sunlight to see how viewers’ eyes reacted. Most people experienced the sense of movement into darkness and their pupils dilated. Their pupils ...

Have a look at this image. Do you perceive that the central black hole is expanding, as if you’re moving into a dark environment, or falling into a hole? If so, you’re not alone: a new study shows ...

A driver in Milwaukee encountered a scary sight while passing through a tunnel late at night – or so he thought. An optical illusion convinced Jordan Mota that the road was split by an abyss that he ...

In the 2000 science fiction film Pitch Black (now streaming on Peacock!), the prisoner Richard B. Riddick, is being escorted on a small spaceship which crash lands on an alien planet. Despite having ...

For most people, this illusion shows an ever-growing void and invokes a feeling that you may be about to enter a tunnel.

Driving in tunnels is not that much of a stressful experience for most people but some drivers in the US had a few baffling minutes after witnessing an optical illusion on an onramp inside a tunnel, ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The French street artist JR has unveiled perhaps his most complex Italian trompe l’oeil ...