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Vanta-Fish — Turns Out Nature Made An Ultra-Black Pigment Before The Nanotech Guys Did

VISUAL Posted: July 19, 2020 6:00 am

Eat your heart out, Anish Kapoor. At least sixteen species of deep-sea creatures “have evolved a different and devilishly clever way of going ultra-black with incredible efficiency: One species the researchers found absorbs 99.956 percent of the light that hits it, making it nearly as black as … Vantablack, the famous human-made material that absorbs almost all the light you shine at it.” – Wired

VISUAL Published: 07.16.20

Read the story in Wired Published: 07.16.20

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