article_snippet: The above image is what scientists say is the first ever snapshot of light behaving as a particle and a wave. 
article_snippet: The bottom 'slice' of the image shows the particles, while the top image shows light as a wave .
article_snippet: But now researchers based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), have captured the first ever snapshot of light behaving as both a wave and particle.
article_snippet: The wave-like behaviour of light can be seen clearly when sunlight is refracted through a prism and splits into the different colours according to the wavelengths of the light.
article_snippet: In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the research team conducted an experiment and then used electrons to image the light.
article_snippet: White light splitting into different colours through a prism (above) shows how it behaves like a wave .
article_snippet: When the waves travelling in opposite directions meet each other they form a new 'standing wave' of light.
article_snippet: Dr Carbone said that the resulting image produces a fingerprint of the wave-nature of light while also simultaneously demonstrating that it is a particle too.
article_snippet: the electrons pass close to the standing wave of light, the electrons hit the photons the electrons contains, again affecting the resulting image.