ART FIGHT! THE PINKEST PINK VERSUS THE BLACKEST BLACK

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Vantablack has a wide (and invisible) Range of Applications

The material has been termed “blacker than black” and for a good reason. UK-based Surrey NanoSystems’ VantaBlack can absorb 99.96% of the radiation in the visible spectrum and even those beyond human sight, including UV and IR. While that is an astounding feat in its own right, Vantablack’s properties also give it excellent front-to-back thermal conduction and high thermal shock resistance. Read full article

Record Breaking Blackest Material Is So Dark It Cannot Be Analysed Using Spectroscopy

Recently, I have got hooked onto the ABC series ‘Once Upon A Time’ thanks to the arrival of Netflix in my life – it came as a package deal with the fiancé. I’m up to Season 3, and thought that things couldn’t possibly get darker than Peter Pan’s shadow, whose mysterious features are barely distinguishable, whose actions are deplorable, and whose voice is provided by the marvelous Marilyn Manson. How wrong I was. Read full article

This Object Has Been Sprayed With the World’s Blackest Material, and It’s Freaking Us Out

Well, we've finally cracked it. Scientists have finally figured out how to paint a portal to another dimension, as prophesied by Loony Tunes' THE ROADRUNNER. Who wants to try driving a (very small) truck right through that gaping void circle? Read full article

Behold the New Vantablack 2.0, the Art Material So Black It Eats Lasers and Flattens Reality

Artists the world over were instantly captivated three years ago when UK-based Surrey NanoSystems ANNOUNCED the invention of Vantablack, the darkest material ever made. And things continue to get darker: The company has been advancing the technology, and released some astonishing photographs and footage of the pigment in action, which have to be seen to be believed. Read full article

Vantablack: It’s blacker than black, but where is the world’s darkest material being used?

When the world's darkest material made headlines in 2014, pundits predicted it would be used to turn military jets invisible, revolutionise our telescopes, and enable new trends in blacker-than-black haute couture. Read full article

Infrared instrumentation leader secures exclusive use of Vantablack coating

infrared leader to use world's blackest coating in blackbody calibration sources Newhaven, UK, December 5, 2016 --- Exclusive rights to the use of ultra-black Vantablack S-VIS surface coating... Read full article

Blackest black

Emmanuelle Alt, the editor in chief of Vogue Paris, is said to have quipped: “I’ll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.”
The Frenchwoman may want to schedule a Harvard visit. Read full article

Introducing – MCT S110 Evo Vantablack by Anish Kapoor (featuring the blackest material in the universe after a black hole…)

What is a color? The perception we have of a reflection of light on a surface. What is black, as perceived by human eye? It is the opposite of color. Black is an achromatic color, literally a color without hue. Black is a surface that reflects or emits only very low light and that absorbs most of the visible light. What is pitch black, in its purest form? It is the complete absence or complete absorption of light. True black doesn’t really exist (except in the instance of a black hole) and what we describe as black is usually dark grey, dark blue, dark red, etc… The fact that pure black can’t be achieved by any material hasn’t stopped people from trying though. The latest example of this comes from our friends at MCT Watches who, in collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor, have created the S110 Evo Vantablack featuring the blackest material ever produced by humankind. Read full article

This high-tech material is so black it makes other black objects look grey

There's a new blackest black material, and it's pretty darn black. Read full article

This is the darkest color in existence — it’s so dark it can make objects disappear

We're OBSESSED with Vantablack, the blackest material ever made. Every time Surrey Nanosystems, the company that makes it, releases a NEW VIDEO it BLOWS US AWAY. In this NEW VIDEO, the researchers coated a sphere with Vantablack. They then moved the sphere over another square of Vantablack, and it disappeared! Read full article

This $95,000 Watch Uses the World’s Blackest Black

Vantablack is the world’s BLACKEST BLACK. It’s so black that 3D objects coated in the material are visually reduced to mere silhouettes. A crumpled piece of tinfoil, for example, looks like a vast abyss. That’s because the material absorbs more than 99.965 percent of light. “It’s the blackest material in the universe after black holes,” the British sculptor Anish Kapoor once said. “It’s a physical thing that you cannot see.” Read full article