You think Blackholes are the lone Light Suckers!!!

The Black holes are not alone…….The only light suckers!

The blackest black right now is debately, a black hole. It sucks all light and obviously reflects Babaji ka thullu, but even that is debatable. In 2008,scientists contributed this world the blackest man-made object yet….yeah that’s right – the VACNT.

By aligning carbon nanotubes vertically in a brush-like formation ,Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute created an object which absorbs 99.97% of all light. A light photon which does not get absorbed by one nanotube gets deflected and absorbed by another, a process which repeats until the light is completely absorbed by what the researchers have called the “forest”. Due to its nature, the VACNT with the naked eye will appear perfectly flat when in fact it is a sheet full of deep holes.

Considering that the conventional black coatings or graphite generally reflect about 5% of light .99.97% absorption is pretty neat.Especially when even NASA was not able to beat it, creating a substance which absorbs only what is now a laughable 99.5%. According to fastcompany.com though, NASA, in collaboration with Melbourne Center for Nano-fabrication , have recently worked on a project to create something even blacker.

The burning question is of course why? What need to we have for this abomination? Well since it absorbs almost all the light,it would be a very useful in energy converters and as well as in stealth and defence as it could serve as a brilliant cover. Splinter cell would get a bit easier, among other things.