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Is there any thing in this universe that moves faster than light(c) called super luminal motion, ?

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Is there any thing in this universe that moves faster than light(c) called super luminal motion, ?

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No, nothing actually moves superluminally (faster than light). However, there are things which APPEAR to move faster than light. Some clouds of fast-moving material from quasars are in this class. If they are moving on a line only a little bit off the line of sight to Earth, they can be so close behind the light they emitted that their crosswise motion appears much faster than it is. Example: A quasar emits a blob of gas moving at 0.9c on the hypotenuse of a 3-4-5 triangle, with the 4-side aiming toward Earth. It moves .72c toward Earth and 0.54c across the line of sight. Each year it moves .54 light years across the line of sight, but the light it emitted the previous year is only 0.28 years ahead of the light it is emitting now. Its apparent cross-wise motion is (.54c/.28) or almost 2c.

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