A British company has produced a “strange, alien” material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record. To stare at the “super black” coating made of carbon nanotubes – each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair – is an odd experience. It is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. Shapes and contours are lost, leaving nothing but an apparent abyss.
If it was used to make one of Chanel’s little black dresses, the wearer’s head and limbs might appear to float incorporeally around a dress-shaped hole.
Want.
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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I can’t wait until they use it to build a life-size Attack the Block creature maquette.
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Wasn’t there a spaceship made of this in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
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