{"id":234723,"date":"2026-04-07T02:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/physicists-found-something-that-can-move-faster-than-light-the-darkness-inside-it"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:32:56","slug":"physicists-found-something-that-can-move-faster-than-light-the-darkness-inside-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/physicists-found-something-that-can-move-faster-than-light-the-darkness-inside-it","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Found Something That Can Move Faster Than Light: The Darkness Inside It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-found-something-that-can-move-faster-than-light-the-darkness-inside-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, physicists have observed that \u2018holes\u2019 in light can move faster than the light itself.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re known as phase singularities or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_vortex\">optical vortices<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/0305-4470\/11\/1\/007\">since the 1970s<\/a>, scientists have predicted that, just as eddies in a river can move faster than the flowing water around them, so too can whirlpools in a wave of light outrun the light they\u2019re embedded within.<\/p>\n<p>This does not break relativity, which states that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. That\u2019s because the vortices carry no mass, energy, or information, and their motion is based on the evolving geometry of the wave pattern rather than any physical motion through space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, physicists have observed that \u2018holes\u2019 in light can move faster than the light itself. They\u2019re known as phase singularities or optical vortices, and since the 1970s, scientists have predicted that, just as eddies in a river can move faster than the flowing water around them, so too can whirlpools in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234723","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=234723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}