  Results from the PHENIX experiment on direct-photon production in Au+Au
collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV for transverse momenta 1 < p_T < 13 GeV/c
are presented. Direct-photon yields at high p_T scale as expected for particle
production in hard processes. This supports jet-quenching models which
attribute the suppression of high-p_T hadrons to the energy loss of fast
partons in the quark-gluon plasma. The low-p_T direct-photon spectra, measured
via e+e- pairs with small invariant masses, are possibly related to the
production of thermal direct photons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC.
