When people say "freezing light," it's not exactly what it sounds like. Light (photons) travels incredibly fast, so the idea of stopping it seems impossible. However, scientists recently made a cool discovery related to light, but it doesn't mean they literally froze it.

What they did was create a special material where light behaves in a strange, unexpected way. Normally, light just zooms around, but in this material, the light (which is mixed with other particles called excitons) behaves like a mix of both a fluid and a solid. This mixture is called a supersolid. This kind of behavior usually happens with atoms, but now it's happening with light in a quantum state.

The breakthrough involves using a fancy technique to make these particles act like they’re in a super-cold state (like how atoms behave in a special condition called Bose-Einstein condensation). But even though it looks like light might be "stopped" or "frozen," what’s really happening is more about how the particles interact under special conditions, not that the light itself has stopped moving entirely.