A dark point inside a wave of light sounds like a contradiction. It is also something researchers say they have now viewed in real time, moving so quickly that, by one measure, it outran light itself.

Physicists have directly tracked tiny points of darkness in laser light racing faster than light itself, without breaking Einstein’s rules. The new measurements show that these “dark points” in a ...

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