There's A New Black That's Even Blacker Than Black

Photo: Courtesy of Surrey Nanosystems. Friends, the day has come that we can retire our "I'll Stop Wearing Black When They Make a Darker Color" T-shirts. According to The Independent, British company Surrey NanoSystems "has produced a 'strange, alien' material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 [%] of visual light, setting a new world record." Called Vantablack, the substance groups together a set of nanotubes ("like incredibly thin drinking straws"). It helps calibrate the cameras and teles...