The darkest material in the world

Britain's Surrey Nanosystems has built a "super-black" coating that can absorb up to 99.96% of light, in other words, the entire light visible to the human eye.

Materials have a dark record - (Photo: Surrey Nanosystems)

Imagine an object so black that you can't detect it even if it is in front of you, like the case of a black hole.

These types of objects exist, thanks to a new coating called Vantablack from Surrey Nanosystems.

According to Mashable, the human eye does not understand what it is looking at, since all shapes and borders are hidden.

Made from carbon nanotubes, with each tube 10,000 times thinner than human hair, light cannot penetrate their surface, creating the so-called 'black hole abyss'.

Unlike previous efforts to fabricate carbon nanotubes, it can be produced at low temperatures, allowing spreads on sensitive electronic devices without causing them to flow.

Vantablack can be used to create telescopes with higher sensitivity now, or build stealth aircraft.