'Black Hole' Coating Keeps Satellite On Track

An ultra-black coating that absorbs virtually all incident light around it makes surface features disappear so it looks like a black hole. That also helps it boost performance of the Kent Ridge 1 satellite's star trackers and Earth observation instruments.

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The World's Darkest Material And A Self-Heating Coat

Sky News Vantablack video featuring Vantablack and Vantablack S-VIS, and shot in our Newhaven facility.

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The world's blackest material makes NASA's ultra-black paint look like it’s not even black

The paint used on the Hubble telescope is one of the blackest materials in space. It's there to reduce stray light so the instrument can photograph the best possible images of our solar system and beyond.

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Vantablack : So dunkel wie ein schwarzes Loch

Das einzige Objekt das tatsächlich diesem Anspruch gerecht wird, ist ein schwarzes Loch, welches jedwedes Licht einfach verschluckt.

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6 Facts about Vantablack - The darkest material ever made

In the Antenna wing of the Science Museum in London, a bronze bust of a man sits behind a wall of glass. The face, which belongs to BBC presenter Marty Jopson, isn’t very big—maybe 6 or 7 inches tall. It’s highly textured, and light catches in its rivets and dimples. Aside from the playfully upturned edges of Jopson’s mustache, there’s nothing particularly remarkable about this bust. But next to it sits an identical bust that absolutely boggles the mind. It looks like someone has cut a hole in the air in the shape of Jopson’s head, leaving only a gaping, empty blackness. 

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That’s not an actual black void —it's the world’s darkest material, now available as spray paint.

Scientists have developed an updated form of the world’s blackest material, now usable with a spray paint gun.

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The Most Important Thing About This Shade Of Black Is Not An Artist's Rights

Lost in last week’s furor over an artist getting the rights to a shade of black was the chemistry that made it possible.

At issue is a material called Vantablack and its derivative S-VIS. Developed by a British company called Surrey Nanosystems, these coatings absorb an incredible amount of light—as much as 99.96% depending on what wavelength you consider. They’re so black that seeing them feels like looking into a hole.

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Some Artists Are Seeing Red Over A New 'Black'

A well thought out article on the debate over Vantablack S-VIS in art.

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Is it possible for an artist to truly own a color?

Though other artists are eager to gain access to it, Anish Kapoor has exclusive rights to use Vantablack, the darkest black ever made, 

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