Vantablack just met its match - from Science Alert:
Engineers Just Unveiled a New Blackest-Ever Material, Even Darker Than Vantablack
You might think you already know black – even super-black Vantablack, previously the blackest material known to science – but researchers just came up with a material that takes black to a new level of blackness.
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.
And here's the rub – this CNT material can absorb more than 99.995 percent of incoming light, beating the 99.96 percent that Vantablack is able to absorb.
"In other words, it reflected 10 times less light than all other superblack materials, including Vantablack," explains an MIT release.
Like some of the best scientific discoveries, this record-setting black stuff was discovered by accident.
More at the site. Lots of uses in optics and spy cameras.
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