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This is how Vantablack, the darkest material ever made, absorbs 99.965% of light
Mar 10, 2017 3:53 PM
davidwallacecfo
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This is how Vantablack, the darkest material ever made, absorbs 99.965% of light
DrMago
...but I can still see it!
DistanceGirl
I need a spy suit made of this stuff.
Crythulhu
I require clothing this black.
vikingvampireangel
He turns the flashlight off. There's a brief moment where the edge of the hexagon is illuminated before he does it so you can tell.
dbencsik
Why does it briefly reflect the light when he's moving the light?
InvadingYourSpaces
This is not how it does, this is a demonstration of doing so. This doesn't explain anything about the material itself.
KobeBurger
This is how I explain that you're wrong.
kagapeme
What's hilarious is that you can see the light reflecting when it hits it, then the photoshop takes over!
taytayhouser
IWillOnlyCommentGifs
Welldoodlemynoodle
*heavy breathing* in emo.
remixedlife91
please paint my cars this
Onennon
Finally I can become the void.
SolessDesign
The stuff A.C.M.E. portable holes are made of.
ACMECustomerSupportRepresentative
Our ACME™ Portable Hole© is a one-of-a-kind, made in-house design with closely guarded ingredients. These Vantablacks are knock-offs.
BufferingBuffalo
Fyi the aluminum foil is there because it gets so hot because of it's absortion when black
Steffn
No it does not
rika87
Perfekt für Ninjas :D
lilcompensate
paint a room with this
OMGtheresNoSink
This would be a nice addition to my dark black and slightly darker black turtlenecks.
Burlybear45
I get that reference
ImgurMadeMeChangeMyNameCauseItsDumb
Tactileneck
trippedoutgod
You must really like archer with the comment and name
OMGtheresNoSink
the sequence of jokes leading up to that line is the best in the whole series IMO
imadeulook
VoxDawg
None. None more black.
BIC777
Scrolled down looking for this comment. You did not disappoint.
TheCuntACrossTheStreet
Still brighter than my future
apexpancake
Imagine a car painted in that
CaptainSisqo
I was gonna say, "Now some asshole is gonna paint his car with this."
kamratjoel
Imagine a spaceship! It would be impossible to see :|
EarlGreyOrDeath
It traps 98% of light that strikes it. If you parked it in the sun it would probably melt.
apexpancake
Haha make T-shirts
NotAPervert
Visible light. Would need to confirm it doesn't emit infrared light, and that it isn't stable enough to handle raised temperatures.
iplaydabass
Blacker than the blackest black times infinity.
balmut
If it's so black, how come I can see it?
amstaffnole
You don't see it. You see what's around it.
LooseyGooseyBrett
Why can i see it reflect the light in the corner when it first passes over it
dobbythehouseelf
That's what I want to know. Is this just done with after effects then and they missed that?
Amnaesia
Looks like it's being reflected by the foil.
nyquihol
Like your butthole.
Superslothsays
A vantablack butthole is the exact opposite of a bleached butthole
Standemonium
It also absorbs 99.965% of.... fuck it never mind
Standemonium
You like OP's butthole?
nyquihol
fizzlebuns
Doesn't one guy own that pigment and doesn't share it with anyone?
angelicmoose
Anish Kapoor - the artist behind that bean looking thing in Chicago. Went to one of his exhibits. Pretty sexy. His studio is near my work.
JudgeMentalCat
He owns the right to use the tech developed by the company that MADE Vantablack. However, he doesn't own the COLOR
JudgeMentalCat
If someone were to find a different way to make it, they could use it
rmmmm
that's Anish Kapoor
AnEightStoryTallCrustaceanFromTheProtozoicEra
How can you own a color?
tooomanysteves
Copyright. Cadbury own that shade of purple.
NordicGurka
Copyright, for just Vanata black.
Standemonium
Like my sense of humor
feckr
where the hell did my bike go?
PsychicNinja55
And my shit after I had chocolate cake for dinner
ExplainTheJoke
Have you ever had Ethiopian food?
Wowyouknowwhatsomanyusernamesaretakenthesedays
And the jews
gjm147
Only omits 0.035% of what has been received? ... Ok.
takethisisdangerous
And muy slaves
TheDrySideOfThePenny
What's the difference between a dead baby and a rock?
IronGravyBoat
Shouldn't eat a rock.
TheDrySideOfThePenny
Good but I was thinking "you can't fuck a rock".
Standemonium
How many babies does it take to paint a house?
TheDrySideOfThePenny
I don't know. Tell me.
codiesm55
So tell me how!?! Cuz that just shows me ... now how.
LaTransDragon
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TheBestRussian
All these pseudo science explanations... in actuality, they've been able to harvest pieces of the black hole and put them onto paper.
theredbully
Now how brown cow
PancakeFaker
Carbon nanotubes make a structure that if scaled up would be a forest with trees hundreds of miles high which makes it very dark.
NerdPreferred
How now brown cow?
spongebobangrypants
Lolz
DrCryptid
Now my question is: could this be used to make solar panels more efficient?
AnonymouZero
solar panels already went through the obscenely expensive phase. we don't got time for that again.
SaintOfBloodletting
Sorcery and witchcraft
OmegaZen
Dark objects absorb light and radiation. It's called a blackbody. Vanta is so black that it's almost a perfect blackbody. Simply put.
moosaroo
Like Terry Crews?
debotehzombie
Found this, explains pretty well. Very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubk34-nFvGM
DarthDeadpool
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SKPY
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spaceaustin
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bawtzki
My left ear really enjoyed that.
karmiphuc
Impressive explantion
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
Like this![]()
(anechoic chamber), but tiny and trapping light instead of audio.
crazyhindu
Its advanced darkness
youmoron
its like how soundproof stuff works, just with light
kelevrah
Push the button of the torch....
Contundo
vertical Carbon nano tubes. Captures the light, reflects very little (0.02%). A sphere would look like its shadow (flat), only darker
akahata
I, as a scientist, herefore predict that vantablack causes lung cancer. Like asbestos. I'll come back here in ten years to see if I was rght
Contundo
That is more like a fortune teller. Nano tech is scary like that, I hope it is safe. So far only an artist and Space agencies use it.
akahata
I am a scientist in the nano tech business.
Contundo
on the front line i see
almostsomething182
I imagine any tiny, sharp particle when inhaled will fuck up your lungs. And I'm just some guy.
akahata
If you say so, someone will call you a "fortune teller".
Zooooool
Anyyhing yet
Cambino
It's just black. Really, really black. There's no trickery here.
purple0king
But there's always trickery when black is involved.
Koga73
Try this, ask a black dude about something sketchy and the answer is always "Don't worry about that."
annoyingenderman
Underrated comment of the week
makeloveandwar
Oh my fuck, that's gold. I really hope other people see this.
xeperos
For all who don't want to watch youtube vids: it's made of carbon nano tubes they are veeeery thin and are on the metal. They "grow" on that
Phischstaebchen
doesnt sound healthy....asbestos anyone?
xeperos
well it's not a silicate so no asbestos. it is made of "vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays". as far as they know it's not a risk
Phischstaebchen
...not yet...
TheFermiSolution
Graphine sheets pose a greater health hazard, to be honest. Monomolecular width snowflakes lodged in the lining of your lungs.
Phischstaebchen
funny enough: they say its mostly save while they ban the bigger Diesel-particles here.... yeah sure.
AncientPostNecromancer
From what i've learned it's all about particle dimensions. Long thin tubes are difficult for the body to dispose of while spheres are (1)
easybrz
Can I paint my car with it?
xeperos
There are plans to use it for jets as paintjob so you can barely see them but that plan is in its eaaarly stages
bamblebimble
If you want your car to melt yes,asuming it doesn't come off somehow, that stuff gets super hot and it's expensive
easybrz
So it would be good for solar panels
bamblebimble
No, it gets unbelievably hot. I think it might burn away. In not sure though