Scientists Create World's Blackest Black

(From MSNBC.com -- By Julie Steenhuysen)

Researchers say they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9% of light.

Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY as the current benchmark of blackness.

And the material is close to the long-sought ideal black, which could absorb all colors of light and reflect none.

Scott O'Leary, thanks for the post.

[But they still can't key billboards over it correctly.]