{"id":11885,"date":"2014-07-19T15:59:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T22:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11885"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:13:51","slug":"new-super-black-light-absorbing-material-looks-like-a-hole-in-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/new-super-black-light-absorbing-material-looks-like-a-hole-in-reality","title":{"rendered":"New Super-Black, Light-Absorbing Material Looks Like a Hole in Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Arlington Hewes\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/ahewes\/\" rel=\"author\">Arlington Hewes<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<br \/> UK nanotechnology company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreynanosystems.com\/news\/19\/\">Surrey NanoSystems<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreynanosystems.com\/news\/19\/\">has created<\/a> what they say is the darkest material known to man. Vantablack consists of a dense forest of carbon nanotubes\u2014single atom carbon tubes 10,000 times thinner than a human hair\u2014that drinks in 99.96% of all incoming radiation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreynanosystems.com\/news\/17\/\">First announced last year<\/a>, the material is a deep, featureless black even when folded and scrunched. \u201cYou expect to see the hills and all you can see\u2026it\u2019s like black, like a hole, like there\u2019s nothing there. It just looks so strange,\u201d Ben Jensen, the firm\u2019s chief technical officer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/blackest-is-the-new-black-scientists-have-developed-a-material-so-dark-that-you-cant-see-it-9602504.html\">told the <em>Independent<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/07\/19\/new-super-black-light-absorbing-material-looks-like-a-hole-in-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Arlington Hewes \u2014 Singularity Hub UK nanotechnology company, Surrey NanoSystems, has created what they say is the darkest material known to man. Vantablack consists of a dense forest of carbon nanotubes\u2014single atom carbon tubes 10,000 times thinner than a human hair\u2014that drinks in 99.96% of all incoming radiation. First announced last year, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46967,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions\/46967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}