Researchers at MIT have created what’s being called the blackest black ever — a new material that absorbs at least 99.995% of light that shines on it.
. “Would you like to see an Earth orbiting another star? We need something very black.”
The new material is also of interest to artists. In fact, its remarkable optical properties came to light only when Diemut Strebe, an artist-in-residence at the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology, asked Wardle’s team about the light-absorbing properties of various materials.Strebe used the carbon nanotube coating in a new art exhibit entitled “The Redemption of Vanity,” which features a $2-million, 17-carat yellow diamond cloaked in the material to become essentially invisible.
“We are presenting the literal devaluation of a diamond, which is highly symbolic and of high economic value,” Strebe. “It presents a challenge to art market mechanisms on the one hand, while expressing at the same time questions of the value of art in a broader way.”
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