MIT scientists accidentally create the blackest material ever
https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/13/mit-scientists-accidentally-create-the-blackest-material-ever/
Good news for goths — black somehow just got even blacker. MIT engineers have cooked up a material that’s 10 times blacker than anything else previously reported.
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…even the white bits were black.
>“Our material is 10 times blacker than anything that’s ever been reported, but I think the blackest black is a constantly moving target. Someone will find a blacker material, and eventually we’ll understand all the underlying mechanisms, and will be able to properly engineer the ultimate black.”
Almost infinitely black.
Bubblecar said:
>“Our material is 10 times blacker than anything that’s ever been reported, but I think the blackest black is a constantly moving target. Someone will find a blacker material, and eventually we’ll understand all the underlying mechanisms, and will be able to properly engineer the ultimate black.”Almost infinitely black.
nearly black
almost as bad as nearly infinite
AwesomeO said:
…even the white bits were black.
Goths will only be happy when even their dandruff is black.
Bubblecar said:
AwesomeO said:
…even the white bits were black.
Goths will only be happy when even their dandruff is black.
Imagine a pure black universe.
Pure black people walking around in pure black space time.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bubblecar said:
AwesomeO said:
…even the white bits were black.
Goths will only be happy when even their dandruff is black.
Imagine a pure black universe.
Pure black people walking around in pure black space time.
No difference to a blind universe. The other senses, smell, touch, hearing, still work.
Like living deep in a cave, or in the deep sea.
Tau.Neutrino said:
MIT scientists accidentally create the blackest material ever
https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/13/mit-scientists-accidentally-create-the-blackest-material-ever/Good news for goths — black somehow just got even blacker. MIT engineers have cooked up a material that’s 10 times blacker than anything else previously reported.
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> Capturing more than 99.995 percent of any incoming light, the material is made of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) grown on chlorine-etched aluminium foil.
What did we have in Doc Smith’s Lensman series? Life imitating SciFi.
He wanted a black spacecraft to be intrinsically indetectable to robotic telescopes.
I’d be fascinated at how black it is in UV and IR wavelengths.
mollwollfumble said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
MIT scientists accidentally create the blackest material ever
https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/13/mit-scientists-accidentally-create-the-blackest-material-ever/Good news for goths — black somehow just got even blacker. MIT engineers have cooked up a material that’s 10 times blacker than anything else previously reported.
more…
> Capturing more than 99.995 percent of any incoming light, the material is made of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) grown on chlorine-etched aluminium foil.
What did we have in Doc Smith’s Lensman series? Life imitating SciFi.
He wanted a black spacecraft to be intrinsically indetectable to robotic telescopes.
I’d be fascinated at how black it is in UV and IR wavelengths.
Ain’t we got fun.
“it could be used in optical blinders that reduce unwanted glare, to help telescopes”
“a 16.78-carat natural yellow diamond has been coated in the material. Instead of a brilliant, sparkling gem, the stone — which is worth an eye-watering $2 million — appears as a flat, black void.”
“hasn’t stopped BMW coating one of its cars in it”
“The Ouster OS1-64 LiDAR sensor is specced at a maximum range of 40 meters for a 10 percent reflective target, so there’s a maximum range of around 22 meters for a target that’s one-percent reflective, like VBx2-coated X6.”
This is like a open foam lattice created by the breakdown of a passive oxide layer, unlike Vantablack which is more like a forest.
The blackness continues into near IR, out to further than 20 microns.
