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Researchers Discover Light's Optical Vortices Move Faster Than Light

4/18/2026

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Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology provided experimental evidence of dark points, or optical vortices, in light waves.
The researchers show these vortices can move faster than light under certain conditions.
The Nature study clarifies that these vortices do not carry energy or information and do not violate relativity.
They observed the phenomena in hexagonal boron nitride and identified universal laws for other wave systems.

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Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology provided experimental evidence of dark points, or optical vortices, in light waves.
The researchers show these vortices can move faster than light under certain conditions.
The Nature study clarifies that these vortices do not carry energy or information and do not violate relativity.
They observed the phenomena in hexagonal boron nitride and identified universal laws for other wave systems.