Fans of matte black, murdered-out style take note: There's a new black paint on the scene that makes your car pale in comparison. Called Vantablack, it was engineered to be the blackest black known to ...

Except the artist Anish Kapoor, that is. If you’ve followed this saga, you already know why. Back in 2016, the world-famous Kapoor licensed the exclusive rights to another paint, the so-called ...

It's been six years since BMW covered a new X6 in Vantablack as a one-off experiment. The crossover was difficult to see as the coating absorbed nearly all the light that hit the bodywork, but it was ...

Vantablack, the world’s “blackest black,” has had a controversial start to life, and now it’s coming to a special edition BMW X6. The one-off X6 sprayed with a Vantablack VBx2 finish will be unveiled ...

The number of satellites in orbit, especially in low-Earth orbit, has massively increased in the last decade. This has brought an increase in brightness across the surface of the Earth, meaning there ...

The “vanta” in “Vantablack” stands for “Vertically Aligned Nanotube Array.” It’s made from microscopic carbon nanotubes, which absorb nearly all of the light that hits them. Vantablack was originally ...

Full pitch-black cars are often called murdered-out in our field of work, but what do you call the world’s blackest vehicle? You could refer to it by using the official name of the color, which is ...

Researchers from the U.K. plan to launch a CubeSat covered with a newly formulated "hull-darkening" Vantablack paint into space next year. If successful, the coating could help mitigate light ...

A new type of super-black, highly resistant satellite paint promises an affordable fix to the satellite light pollution problem that has marred astronomical research since the recent advent of ...