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The Blackest Black

Barnes Engineering’s innovation of a method to make a surface really black was very classified at the time. Now, a commercial product working with the same approach can make the surface of any object into a “light trap.” It reflects practically nothing.  I read that a Vantablack-coated surface really looks like a void, a black hole, with no hint of its shape or texture, or color remaining. People say it is like looking through the object at a totally black background.