New Super-Black, Light-Absorbing Material Looks Like a Hole in Reality

UK nanotechnology company, Surrey NanoSystems, has created what they say is the darkest material known to man. Vantablack consists of a dense forest of carbon nanotubes--single atom carbon tubes 10,000 times thinner than a human hair--that drinks in 99.96% of all incoming radiation. First announced last year, the material is […]