Black leather jacket, Eerie black, Outer space, Licorice, Onyx and plain old Black. These are the names of Crayola’s blackest of black crayons. Sure, they’re all jet black, but none of them have ...

But until now, Vantablack’s nonscientific uses have been just that: buzzy, one-off projects that have generated short-lived bursts of noise and media fascination, but not much else. That’s largely ...

A new black is developed by “growing” carbon nanotubes on a metal surface called the Vantablack or Vertically Aligned NanoTube Array. Being the “blackest” material ever yet, it traps and bounces light ...

A new type of super-black, highly resistant satellite paint promises an affordable fix to the satellite light pollution problem that has marred astronomical research since the recent advent of ...

British company Surrey NanoSystems disrupted the color spectrum when it debuted Vantablack: the darkest artificial substance ever made. The material is dark enough to absorb virtually all light waves, ...

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What do you get when you combine the Baroque interior of a Venetian palazzo with the bottomless void of the blackest material in the world? Ask Anish Kapoor, the British-Indian artist who is unveiling ...

Discover how Vantablack's ultra-black coating is transforming advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in autonomous ...

Before it started making all of its laptops out of aluminum, Apple offered MacBooks with a matte black finish that, so far, has been challenging to reproduce on its all metal computers. But a new ...

Ferrari must have thought the SF90 looks too shiny, so they gave it a Vantablack (or so it appears) finish. At least that’s what we think, because this video, shot in Maranello, Italy, which is the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Black leather jacket, Eerie black, Outer space, Licorice, Onyx and plain old Black. These are the names of Crayola’s blackest of black ...