So, Vantablack is pretty susceptible to damage, which is why it can’t yet be applied to unprotected surfaces like cars or high-end gowns—one brush of a hand and the material would lose its ...

When light strikes Vantablack, instead of bouncing off, it gets trapped, transformed into heat, and never leaves. As Kapoor claims, the material is ‘blacker than a black hole’. The room is a grid of ...

Touted as the darkest man-made substance in the world, Vantablack is so uncomfortably black the human eye can’t quite decipher what it is seeing.

Optical illusions are wild. But this one might be the wildest one we’ve seen. A newly developed color called Vantablack might be the coolest color ever. But it’s actually illegal to use it ...

Anish Kapoor has a monopoly on Vantablack, the world's blackest black, but he can't use Stuart Semple's cheaper alternative, Black 2.0.

For $75,000, you can now buy a H. Moser & Cie timepiece whose face is covered in this black coating known as “Vantablack.” Each watch dial was shipped to the British company Surrey Nanosystems ...

Vantablack is now available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light — enough to make an otherwise detailed 3D object appear as a flat black void.

It's not a paint or a pigment. It's not even really black. But the "material" known as Vantablack is causing a stir after renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor bought exclusive rights to use it in art.

BMW will show a 2020 X6 at the Frankfurt auto show in September that has been painted in the blackest paint we've ever seen.; Called Vantablack, the paint is normally used for coating space-borne ...

It doesn't get much darker than Vantablack, a special coating material that'll make you think you're staring into the heart of a black hole. Now it's available to coat all sorts of things.