A research team at Rice University in Houston, US, has claimed that they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.
Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of blackness.
And the material is close to the long-sought ideal black, which could absorb all colors of light and reflect none. [Reuters, via Neatorama]
I wonder if there is something like ‘whiter than white’ as well.