"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: It's an oft-touted fact that nothing can travel faster ...

For the first time, physicists have observed that 'holes' in light can move faster than the light itself. They're known as phase singularities or optical vortices, and since the 1970s, scientists have ...

Can darkness really travel faster than light? A surprising new physics experiment suggests it can—at least in a very unusual way. Scientists observed dark regions within light waves moving faster than ...

Your high school physics teacher wasn’t lying—nothing with mass can outrun light. But scientists at Technion just proved that “darkness” itself doesn’t follow those rules. They’ve confirmed that ...

A dark point inside a beam of light should not be much of a traveler. Yet in a new experiment, some of those points appeared to move faster than light itself, darting through a wave field before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Aitor Diago/Moment/Getty Images) For the first time, physicists have observed that 'holes' in light can move faster than the ...