Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Vantablack

Interesting interview on BBC4's Today program this morning - Anish Kapoor talking about Vantablack,  a nano-technology material that is said to be "the world's darkest material - so dark you can't see it".

Kapoor is working with this material and in the interview he says it has peculiar properties.  Because it absorbs light it creates a sort black hole that doesn't have a shape.  And Kapoor says that not having boundaries does funny things with our perception of time.

Sounds really interesting!

Here's a link to the  Today interview with Kapoor

Here's a link to an article about it in Dazed. 




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