Part of the appeal of Vantablack is that it absorbs 99.96% of the light that hits its surface.
“When you have no light reflected back to the viewer, you see nothing, so your brain paints it as black,” Ben Jensen, co-founder of Surrey NanoSystems tells CNN.
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When used as a coating, Vantablack appears to change the dimensions of an object, rendering 3D objects completely flat.
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