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The world‘s Mattest Flattest Blackest black - it could absorb 99.965% of the light that hit it
In 2014, a UK nanotech company announced they'd created the darkest shade of black in the world. They called it Vantablack, and it absorbed an unprecedented 99.9% of the light that hit it. What does that mean? Here is a comparison: Black hole absorbs 100% of the light that hits it. They are similarly black - you can imagine a black hole as just a sphere of Vantablack! You can see how the material absorbs almost all of the light, reflecting nothing detectable back to our eyes: The red light of a laser pointer vanish when it was run through a surface coated in the new material. They covered the sculpture on...