VantaBlack BMW X6 * Light-absorbing paint in the blackest black by Anish Kapoor.

A world premiere without the bright lights: BMW is the first manufacturer to produce a Vantablack car, painted with a light-absorbing paint in the blackest black. But where does this ultimate black come from? And what makes it so special? 7 October 2019. BMW took its one-off Vantablack X6 to the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show - September 12. Vantablack is a material developed by Surrey NanoSystems in the United Kingdom and is one of the darkest substances known, absorbing up to 99.965% of visible light (at 663 nm if the light is perpendicular to the material).[4][5] The name is a compound of the acronym VANTA (vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays)[6] and the color black. Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA (born 12 March 1954) is a British Indian[2] sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai,[3][4] Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. Swiss, H. Moser & Cie have used this stealth technology in their watches. 24 September 2019 MIT engineers have created a blackest black coating from carbon nanotubes that is reportedly 10 times darker than any material created before, including Vantablack. The coating, which is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT) grown on chlorine-etched aluminium foil, can absorb 99.995 percent of visible light. "Our material is 10 times blacker than anything that’s...