Check out this eater of light, the blackest material ever created:
A rather pricey diamond at the New York Stock Exchange turns into an unnerving void when coated with a forest of carbon nanotubes.The night is dark and full of terrors. Now, thanks to two engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, it’s about to get even darker: they have invented a material that absorbs all but 0.005% of visible light. That makes it the blackest material ever created.
Admittedly, this is difficult to picture. According to Vantablack creators Surrey NanoSystems, it is helpful to imagine that you are in a forest where the trees are three kilometres tall. “It’s easy to imagine just how little light, if any, would reach you,”somewhat ominously, as if they are gleefully planning to shrink you down to carbon nanotube size.
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