Absolute zero is the coldest possible temperature.

More formally, it is the temperature at which entropy reaches its minimum value. Absolute zero cannot be achieved, although it is possible to reach temperatures close to it through the use of cryocoolers, dilution refrigerators, and nuclear adiabatic demagnetization. The use of laser cooling has produced [17] temperatures less than a billionth of a kelvin. At very low temperatures in the vicinity of absolute zero, matter exhibits many unusual properties, including superconductivity,superfluidity, and BoseEinstein condensation. To study such phenomena, scientists have worked to obtain even lower temperatures.

The current world record was set in 1999 at 100 picokelvins (pK), or 0.000 000 000 1 of a kelvin, by cooling the [18] nuclear spins in a piece of rhodium metal. In November 2000, nuclear spin temperatures below 100 pK were reported for an experiment at the Helsinki University of Technology's Low Temperature Lab. However, this was the temperature of one particular degree of freedom a quantum property called nuclear spin not the overall average thermodynamic temperature for all [19][20] possible degrees in freedom. In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500,000 km/h (over 300,000 mph) for the last 1,500 years. This has cooled it down to approximately 1 K, as [21] deduced by astronomical observation, which is the lowest natural temperature ever recorded. In May 2005, the European Space Agency proposed research in space to achieve femto-kelvin temperatures. In May 2006, the Institute of Quantum Optics at the University of Hanover gave details of technologies and benefits of femto-kelvin research in space.
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Heat is really an indication of how fast the atoms and their particles are moving, the higher the temperature, the faster the particles are moving. If the temperature gets high enough, the particles travel fast enough to break apart. Approaching Absolute Zero, the opposite happens. The particles move more and more slowly until, if the temperature reached AZ, they would stop altogether. This may be the outcome when the Universe finally expires at what we call the Heat Death of the Universe. To simplify further, matter is always on the move. Well, I mean atoms are always moving. They never stop. Whether in a gaseous state (and here they really go fast from one place to another), liquid or solid, they are moving at a certain rate depending on the ambient temperature. If you heat iron, the atoms will increase their "jumping up and down" inside the mass which is holding together. And when you cool down the iron, atoms will slow down. Now if you get to almost absolute zero temperature (0 K) the atoms will hardly quiver. They CANNOT stop. If they did, they wouldn't exist. Compare this to living creatures, if there weren't any oxygen on earth; they just wouldn't exist.