For $75,000, you can now buy a H. Moser & Cie timepiece whose face is covered in this black coating known as “Vantablack.” Each watch dial was shipped to the British company Surrey Nanosystems ...

The launch of artist Stuart Semple’s new $16 ink could reignite his surreal rivalry with sculptor Anish Kapoor over the “blackest black,” the “pinkest pink” and the ownership of colors.

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 ...

When used as a coating, Vantablack appears to change the dimensions of an object, rendering 3D objects completely flat. It’s this absence of color, light and depth that first drew Khan to ...

It's been six years since BMW covered a new X6 in Vantablack as a one-off experiment. The crossover was difficult to see as the coating absorbed nearly all the light that hit the bodywork, but it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...