Vantablack has been called the
world’s darkest substance. When it was unveiled in 2014, the material made
headlines for the way it seemed to leach objects of their three-dimensionality; it was
so black that every feature merged into a black hole.
Darker than a black bear in a
cave on a starless night, Vantablack looks downright otherworldly. But,
humans are hardly alone when it comes to inky excess. Some birds, of a type
normally associated with brilliant plumage, have feathers that rival the
substance’s light-stealing prowess, say a group of researchers in a paper
published Tuesday in Nature Communications.
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