Photons Always Travel at the Speed of Light

"It's kind of confusing, sure. But i think maybe the scenaroes he was trying to paint is at, like, let's say tha star shoots off two photons, and one photon just goes clear through space." "No, no, nothing in its path. The other one flies like, close to a heavy planet, or close to a black hole," she says. 'And people might be puzzling about that'