While Vantablack is a structural color made from lab-grown carbon nanotubes roughly one millionth of a millimeter in size, Semple’s products are pigment-based.

BMW seemed to miss the “just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should” memo when they decided to paint a one-off of their new X6 in Vantablack, the color that’s so black it’s ...

Kapoor faced criticism from other artists who felt like he was monopolizing a color. But outside the art industry, many businesses are actively exploring how to use Vantablack in their products.

Vantablack is probably the most well-known of a class of ultra-black paints dubbed the world's darkest material. Vantablack paint can absorb almost all the visible light that hits it – the ...

Surrey NanoSystems, Vantablack's creator, announced that it's tackling the reflectivity of satellites that threatens ground-based astronomical research.

Researchers from the U.K. plan to launch a CubeSat covered with a newly formulated "hull-darkening" Vantablack paint into space next year. If successful, the coating could help mitigate light ...

Touted as the darkest man-made substance in the world, Vantablack is so uncomfortably black the human eye can’t quite decipher what it is seeing.

While most athletes and spectators are thinking of bronze, silver, and gold, there’s a new color garnering attention in PyeongChang right now — black. Vantablack, more precisely. With the 2018 ...

The X6's Vantablack paint color absorbs 99 percent of light and was originally intended for use coating aerospace components.

There won't be thousands of Vantablack cars wandering around -- BMW isn't offering the color for sale anyway -- so the machines can breathe a sigh of relief there.