🚨: Scientists have achieved a major physics milestone by freezing pure light and turned it into a solid for the first time!

Scientists have achieved a major physics first by creating a supersolid state using light instead of ultracold atoms. Reported by physicists Daniele Gianfrate and Davide Nigro, the experiment revealed a strange form of matter that behaves like a solid while flowing without friction at the same time. This breakthrough shows that supersolidity is possible in systems far more accessible than those previously required.

The team fired laser light into an aluminum gallium arsenide crystal, where light strongly coupled with the material to form hybrid particles called polaritons.

These particles naturally arranged themselves into a repeating solid-like structure, yet still moved with zero resistance. The result merges optics, quantum physics, and materials science, opening new paths for studying exotic states of matter using light.