Just when you thought that Vantablack is the blackest material known to science, another comes in to take its place. Researchers just unveiled “a material that takes black to a whole new level of blackness.”
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The new, as-yet-unnamed ultra-black material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), microscopic carbon strings that are a little like a fuzzy forest of tiny trees, according to the team behind the project.
The CNT material is stated to absorb over 99.995 of incoming light, which is greater than the 99.96 percent that Vantablack can absorb.
“In other words, it reflected 10 times less light than all other superblack materials, including Vantablack,” explains an MIT release.
The amazing thing about this is this was discovered by accident, just like some of the best scientific discoveries. Check out the story over at ScienceAlert.
(Image Credit: R. Capanna / A. Berlato / A. Pinato/ ScienceAlert)
Source: neatorama