{"id":234146,"date":"2026-03-27T03:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/novel-measurement-confirms-a-50-year-old-prediction-dark-points-are-faster-than-light"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:20:35","slug":"novel-measurement-confirms-a-50-year-old-prediction-dark-points-are-faster-than-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/novel-measurement-confirms-a-50-year-old-prediction-dark-points-are-faster-than-light","title":{"rendered":"Novel measurement confirms a 50-year-old prediction: Dark points are faster than light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-measurement-confirms-a-50-year-old-prediction-dark-points-are-faster-than-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research group from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10209-z\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i> an unprecedented achievement in electron microscopy: the direct measurement of \u201cdark points\u201d within light waves. By doing so, the researchers were able to confirm a prediction from the 1970s that the speed of these points exceeds the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdark points\u201d measured by the group are essentially tiny \u201choles\u201d in the wave structure. Known as vortices, the holes are a common phenomenon in nature: We encounter them in ocean waves, in air currents, and even in coffee when we stir it or pour it into the sink. As early as the 1970s, a surprising theoretical prediction was proposed: Vortices may move faster than the wave in which they are formed. As strange as it sounds\u2014imagine a vortex in a river overtaking the flow of water in which it exists\u2014the phenomenon is real. Until now, this was based on theory. The research team\u2019s achievement has now confirmed it experimentally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research group from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology reports in Nature an unprecedented achievement in electron microscopy: the direct measurement of \u201cdark points\u201d within light waves. By doing so, the researchers were able to confirm a prediction from the 1970s that the speed of these points exceeds the speed of light. The \u201cdark points\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}