By Sebastian Anthony | ExtremeTech
At a nondescript industrial park in south England, scientists have created a new super-black material fashioned out of carbon nanotubes that is so dark its like looking at a black hole. The material, called Vantablack, absorbs all but 0.035% of the incident light that bounces off it, meaning your eyes essentially cant see it you can only see the space around it, and then infer that there must be something occupying that eerie abyss. Vantablacks first customers are in the defense and space sectors, where the material can be used to make a whole variety of stealth craft and weaponry, and more sensitive telescopes that can detect the faintest of faraway stars.
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Speaking to the Independent, the companys CTO, Ben Jensen, attempted to describe the material which is rather hard, as you cant really see it. Even when you bend or crumple the Vantablack, the material or rather, the dark nothingness created by the material looks completely flat. You expect to see the hills [of the bends and crumples] and all you can see its like black, like a hole, like theres nothing there. It just looks so strange.
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