Vantablack is the world's blackest black material
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VANTABLACK is the world's blackest black. It's so black that 3-D 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 per cent 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."
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