Vantablack: The Darkest Material Ever Made
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What if you could see the complete absence of light?The darker something looks, the more light it’s absorbing, and the less it’s reflectingback at your eyes.So a black hole, which absorbs all light, is the darkest thing possible.Odds are you’ll never see a black hole in person -- the nearest one is thousands oflightyears away, and there’s that unfortunate danger of being spaghetti-ed to death.But if you really want to know what it looks like when something absorbs all light, a newmaterial called Vantablack is pretty close to complete and total darkness.And this stuff is freaky-looking.Back in 2012, the British company Surrey NanoSystems started developing Vantablack, a coating that’smade to absorb as much light as possible.The first version of Vantablack, rel...
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What if you could see the complete absence of light?The darker something looks, the more light it’s absorbing, and the less it’s reflectingback at your eyes.So a black hole, which absorbs all light, is the darkest thing possible.Odds are you’ll never see a black hole in person -- the nearest one is thousands oflightyears away, and there’s that unfortunate danger of being spaghetti-ed to death.But if you really want to know what it looks like when something absorbs all light, a newmaterial called Vantablack is pretty close to complete and total darkness.And this stuff is freaky-looking.Back in 2012, the British company Surrey NanoSystems started developing Vantablack, a coating that’smade to absorb as much light as possible.The first version of Vantablack, rel...
