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Can Cherenkov radiation carry information? If it can does this mean information can travel faster than light? Question from a physics newbie

Cherenkov radiation is UV to visible blue light, it travels at the speed of light in the medium, which is lower than the speed of light in vacuum.

Only the charged particle that induces the emission travels faster than the local speed of light.

it's only faster in a medium, which technically isn't even light but rather electron interactions.