Look around your room and search for a black object I guarantee if you look
closely you'll realize that the object is not pure black instead it's likely
very very dark gray we all think we know what the color black looks like but even
ever seen something truly black in the world before that is unless you're one
of the few scientists who have made this amazing new material the image on screen
right now is not photoshopped it is actually a material called
vantablack today we're going to look at what this is how it's possible and if
you can eat it I'm Charlie and today we're going to look at the darkest
object on earth explained but before we get into it why not subscribe and press
the notification bell to during the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea people
were stunned that's because of a special building that was built in the Olympic
Park the building was called at the high undyed pavilion and it was designed by a
safe car a safe car nosy British architect who made this super black
building by coating it in a material that material is known as vantablack vbx
- but this is just a derivative of the nanomaterial vantablack the idea for the
high undyed pavilion was a schism in space he wanted it to look like you were
looking into the depths of space itself and he succeeded in his mission
if you walk right up to the building and look at a black part of it it's like
seeing into total darkness but it's beyond any darkness you would have seen
before so what exactly is this man-made substance and how is it so black well
the building was made of vantablack vbx - which is a derivative of the nano
material the original vantablack material is so black the human eye can't
actually process what it's seeing but it is the closest thing the human eye can
ever see to a black hole the way this material works is it absorbs 99% of all
light vantablack is not so much a color but the complete absence of all color
the material is actually man-made and was first developed in 2015 by Sri
nanosystems in UK ever since they made this
nanomaterial they've been swamped with millions of people inquiring about it
architects want to build buildings out of it aerospace engineers want to build
rockets out of it designers want to make products with it
and some chefs even want to wrap their food in it
the original vantablack absorbs even more than the derivative used on the
building the original vantablack absorbs 99.9 6% of all light that hits the
surface of it no light is reflected back into your eyes so your brain paints it
as black and when it's used as a coating it can totally change the dimensions of
an object as we know it any 3d object appears 2d and totally flat that's
because there's no light color or depth on this material this is the first
material to break the fundamental rules of perception and unlike almost every
other material it absorbs light rather than reflecting it this material will
literally change the possibility of all architecture and some say it's as
powerful as switching off gravity but Fanta black won't be being used very
widely any time soon it takes incredible precision and detail to make and thus
it's very expensive one square centimeter of this material consists of
1 billion nanotubes and these all have to be spaced perfectly apart from each
other when light enters these nanotubes its bounced around them it's then
ultimately trapped and converted to heat meaning it absorbs any light rather than
emitting it out to your eyes one scientist described carbon nanotubes as
very very long blades of grass he says imagine if you were walking in cross
which was 1,000 feet tall very little light would get down to you so it's like
that but on a tiny scale these billions of nanotubes are grown under very
powerful lamps and the lamps need to be around 500 degrees Celsius or higher to
grow these nanotubes vantablack was originally made for engineering in space
but if the company Haskell inquiries from Rockstar saying they want to coat
their guitars in it and even millionaires saying they want to coat
their supercars in it one person even said they wanted to film themselves
eating it and post it to YouTube but the company explained that wood
to be a good idea it would cause severe skin irritation if it touched your skin
and it may even be poisonous for you to eat
however the Swiss watch company MCT did make a limited edition watch out of this
material the background was made of vantablack so it looked like the
elements of the watch were floating in a void this watch is awesome but costs
nearly 100 thousand dollars another more practical use for vantablack is coating
the inside of optical telescopes these telescopes then will be attached to
satellite so we can see deep into space and the Fanta black coating will stop
any stray light from entering the telescope and ruining the image this way
scientists will get clearer pictures of space and it will also allow scientists
to make better predictions about the weather and climate but sadly you can't
just get a vantablack spray paint or can of Fanta black paint the company who
makes it say this is a big misconception instead it has to be grown through very
complex means under these very hot lamps so sadly we don't yet have Fanta black
paint but in years to come who knows but now it's time to make your opinion heard
if they came out with safe Fanta black food would you eat it or not if you want
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