(Aitor Diago/Moment/Getty Images) For the first time, physicists have observed that 'holes' in light can move faster than the ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists directly measured dark points in light waves and found some moved faster than light without breaking relativity.