: Julia Kristeva’s book Black Sun: Mourning and Melancholia uses the image to explore the "dark sun" of depression and the loss that cannot be resolved.

: In the 1930s, SS leader Heinrich Himmler commissioned a dark green mosaic of this symbol for the floor of the Obergruppenführer-Hall (SS Generals' Hall) at Wewelsburg Castle .

: Organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and Bellingcat categorize this specific sunwheel design as a hate symbol.