The speed of light in a vacuum has been known as both a universal constant and a hard speed limit for all matter in the universe ever since Albert Einstein published his special theory of relativity in 1905. Rules, however, are made to be broken. And an international team of physicists appears to have found just such a loophole: the only thing that goes faster than light, it turns out, is darkness.
More specifically, individual dark spots known as optical vortices, or phase singularities, do so. As a light wave travels through space, it oscillates and twists—at the center of that twist, the peaks and troughs of the light wave cancel each other out, creating dark spots that—under certain conditions—outrun the light wave itself. The research was conducted by Technion–Israel Institute of Technology physicist Ido Kaminer and his colleagues.
Darkness is an absence, not a substance. In order for that to work you’d need to be projecting some kind of darkness particles or negative energy and that breaks the laws of physics.
Not quite, based on the article, opposing waveforms cancel each other out, which is what causes the optical vorticies they discussed in the article. I’m being mostly facetious, but the article makes it sound theoretically plausible.