Vantablack is a special coating material, moreso than a paint. It’s well-known as one of the blackest possible coatings around, capable of absorbing almost all visible light in its nanotube c… ...

Vantablack is probably the most well-known of a class of ultra-black paints dubbed the world's darkest material. Vantablack paint can absorb almost all the visible light that hits it – the ...

Vantablack paint is so black, this 2020 BMW X6 looks two-dimensional. By Ronan Glon. Aug 28, 2019 8:24 AM EDT Start the Conversation . Featured Gallery.

At next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW will display a one-off version of the forthcoming third-generation X6 SUV that’s been fully coated in Vantablack paint, in which carbon nanotubes are ...

BMW will show a 2020 X6 at the Frankfurt auto show in September that has been painted in the blackest paint we've ever seen.; Called Vantablack, the paint is normally used for coating space-borne ...

Vantablack is now available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light — enough to make an otherwise detailed 3D object appear as a flat black void.

Last year, Surrey NanoSystems developed a spray paint version, Vantablack S-VIS. “If required, objects up to a metre or more in length can be sprayed, providing very great flexibility of ...

The engineers hope the supercool paint will reduce the need for air conditioning on a warming planet. ... 'Vantablack,' which absorbs up to 99.9% of visible light," Purdue said in a statement ...

The paint, called Vantablack 310, could reduce the amount of light reflected by satellites in orbit down to just 2% of what is reflected by uncoated satellites, virtually erasing the pesky streaks ...

Vantablack Paint Might Have A Legitimate Use Case In Space. By Ryan Erik King June 13, 2025 12:25 pm EST. Matt Townson/Shutterstock. It's been six years since BMW covered a new X6 in Vantablack as ...

The “darkness” in question is an ultra-black paint called Vantablack 310. It’s one of the darkest paints ever created, and it could help keep satellites from reflecting light back down ...