
The Secret Lives of Color
99% Invisible
What Is Vanta Black?
Vanta black is a substance that absorbs more light than anything else on earth. It was created for use in satellite guidance systems, and it's far too dark to give our eyes any information about e the kind of environment we're in. When i first saw a sample of vanter black, it was kind of a grown onto a sample of aluminiu foil. And even though you knew that this piece of aluminim foil was three d youkow it had lots of contours, you couldn't discern that all of a suddenall you could see was just a black hole. That was incredibly rat of me, so completely mad, seeing it in in a lab,. Even though
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