Though this BMW paint job is a one-off, the company confirms that the experiment could have implications for its future designs. It’s hard to describe Vantablack, the world’s darkest black pigment, ...

Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending years as a regular ol' car fanatic, he started working his way through the echelons of the automotive industry, starting out as social-media ...

Vantablack, first announced in 2014, is a rare real-life special effect, a coating so black that it sucks in almost every photon that hits it. It makes any three-dimensional object basically look like ...

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 complex ...

But until now, Vantablack’s nonscientific uses have been just that: buzzy, one-off projects that have generated short-lived bursts of noise and media fascination, but not much else. That’s largely ...

Another shot has been fired in the war over Vantablack, the world’s blackest material. Artist Stuart Semple is taking aim yet again at Anish Kapoor, who infamously secured the exclusive rights for the ...

Artists the world over were instantly captivated three years ago when UK-based Surrey NanoSystems announced the invention of Vantablack, the darkest material ever made. And things continue to get ...

Sometimes, regular black just isn't good enough. If you're building an ultra-sensitive space telescope, for instance, you want to minimize reflections within that device as much as humanly possible.

While most athletes and spectators are thinking of bronze, silver, and gold, there’s a new color garnering attention in PyeongChang right now — black. Vantablack, more precisely. With the 2018 Olympic ...

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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 ...