Oct 14 2008Blacker Than Black: The Darkest Material

Researchers have recently made a material so dark it absorbs 99.9% of light, the closest yet to a "pure" black.
The substance has a total reflective index of 0.045 percent -- which is more than three times darker than the nickel-phosphorous alloy that now holds the record as the world's darkest material.
Basic black paint, by comparison, has a reflective index of 5 percent to 10 percent.
Ninjas and emos rejoice!
New material pushes the boundary of blackness [reuters]
Thanks to bob, who wrote the joke so I didn't have to. Check's in the mail!
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Reader Comments
1. Sharpie - October 14, 2008 11:55 AM
gays 1st
2. Sharpie - October 14, 2008 11:56 AM
THERE BOTH GAY AND THE GUY ON THE RIGHT PULLED IT OUT OF THE OTHER GUYS ASSHOLE.
3. Sharpie - October 14, 2008 11:59 AM
yes guys, we made something blacker then black!!!............................now what? ..............ummmmmmmmm i dunno. well at lest that was good money wasted!
4. G - October 14, 2008 12:05 PM
I thought Wesley Snipes was blacker than black?
5. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 12:06 PM
I agree. something like this can only be found in an asshole. At least that's where I found mine. Now that I'm safe from all light I can do nothing and hide in the dark!!. YAY FOR ME!!! PEW PEW PEW.
6. Konkey Dong - October 14, 2008 12:10 PM
aw great. here comes sharpie the idiot again with his there/their/they're, your/you're, then/than along with his many other grammatical mistakes. welcome to english class you mother f***ers.
7. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 12:10 PM
@5, C'mon man. I think my comments are a little more clever than that shit you try to pass off as me.
8. Anonymous - October 14, 2008 12:14 PM
ALL OF YOU ARE RETARDED.......... seriously. want real information?? watch the newssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
9. Anonymous - October 14, 2008 12:18 PM
Theirs only won problem guys. Eye don't understand a god damn word you're saying, nothing makes cents. I mean cum on for reel. Get your gamer write! So if you know how to spell and use your sentences incorrectly that must mean you know how to use them correct too. I JUST DONT GIVE A SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
10. Sharpie - October 14, 2008 12:22 PM
geekologie should remove the Name and URL from the comment form and post all comments as Sharpie. Then their woodnt bee all these fites over grammer because no one wood really no who rote it
11. Sharpie - October 14, 2008 12:22 PM
Nice try 8 and 9
12. Konkey Dong - October 14, 2008 12:27 PM
The guy on the left is my neighbor. I always thought no one was home but now its clean that his windows are made of this shit. Dammit and Ive been trying to watch him change for months now. Holly shit I'm a fagot! somebody f*** me
13. Sharpie - October 14, 2008 12:33 PM
Nice comment on the last post LSDickhead!
12. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 11:49 AM
@9 omfg lawl rofl. good ones! this are funn!
what great grammar you have!
14. Konkey Dong - October 14, 2008 12:35 PM
hey guys! i got buttf***ed! and i'm not even the imposter!
15. Chan TheJunction - October 14, 2008 12:37 PM
Very interesting, but whose idea was it to develop material darker than black? ^^
16. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 12:38 PM
blacker than black huh? you see where i'm going with this? it is found in my butthole, that's where i'm going with this. and you can come too. see what i did there? i invited you to put your penis in my anus and ejaculate. that's what i did there.
17. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 12:39 PM
@13, if you were any kind of smart, you would realize that post was made by my secret stalker (sounds cooler than imposterer) and that I never say things like that online.
Unless you're an imposter too. You really can't tell anymore, but a hardy "F*** YOU" to you anyway.
18. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 12:40 PM
@16, nice try, but no.
19. Sharpie - October 14, 2008 12:41 PM
don't be mad because your mother dropped you in a bucket of chlorine. you'll wise up someday.
20. Therapix - October 14, 2008 12:46 PM
"Ninjas and emos rejoice!"
hahahaha, classic.
21. Spinal Tap - October 14, 2008 12:49 PM
How much more black could it be? None... none more black.
22. Lieutenant Bob - October 14, 2008 12:52 PM
Ha! The really funny part about 9 is he used "you're" wrong.... wrong. He actually used it correctly by mistake:
"Theirs only won problem guys. Eye don't understand a god damn word YOU'RE saying, nothing makes cents."
Heee-f***in-larious!
23. Admiral Notbob - October 14, 2008 1:04 PM
Madness, my languages teacher would be going just about mental right now.
24. Joxer the Mighty - October 14, 2008 1:05 PM
f*** Anticlown Media!
25. AC - October 14, 2008 1:05 PM
You guys are ignoring the real question this advance in blackness technology begs: this new material is black, yes, but is it blacker than priests' socks?
26. Dead Mike - October 14, 2008 1:33 PM
No wait just a motha f***in minute. I'm blacker than black, and I'm black y'all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-EdsgeO1A
27. greg - October 14, 2008 1:47 PM
the right guy uses a ring to prove he is man, but nowsdays it doesnt count anymore
28. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 1:50 PM
It would've been more exciting if the indian dude was holding Hitler's 'stache.
29. Andyman - October 14, 2008 1:54 PM
LOL @ you guys starting flame wars in a comments section. Is work that slow?
30. Daisy - October 14, 2008 1:58 PM
Fake!
This is obviously a photoshop job. You can tell because the shadows are ALL wrong.
It does kinda look like a screen shot from the newly released blu ray Never Back Down, the directors cut. Its one of the special features.
31. Elmo - October 14, 2008 1:59 PM
you're damn right work's slow!
hey guys....you REALLY wanna know what's blacker then black?............ huh?
32. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 2:02 PM
@29, I answer calls for people who want to donate money to the "Keep Bush in office four more years" foundation.
So yeah, it's pretty slow.
33. Elmo - October 14, 2008 2:05 PM
I'll call you, Diesel.... no, I won't
34. boredom - October 14, 2008 2:05 PM
Elmo no we really don't want to know.
Daisy you fail because it's obviously a microsoft paint fill in the square job and not photoshop at all.
LSDiesel, you see to be getting impostered quite a bit lately.
Oh and yes working is really slow
35. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 2:08 PM
@34, I got the shit impostered outta me over the weekend and monday. I think I've only been impostered three times today so far. And if you're referring to my post #32, I don't really work there, I was just trying really hard to say something clever.
And yes, this is really me.
36. say what - October 14, 2008 2:57 PM
YO MOMMAS SO BLACK SHES MADE OF CARBON NANOTUBES STANDING ON END BIATCH
37. Douchie Mc Bagman - October 14, 2008 3:30 PM
As much as I hate to agree with daisy, the guy on the right looks like the Indian guy from Super troopers, and the guy on the left looks like a Mongolian
Mongoloid.
38. ahha - October 14, 2008 3:43 PM
yeah the guy on the left is a classic ham face.
39. Paul - October 14, 2008 3:46 PM
It asks the question "how much more black could it be?" And the answer is, "none, none more black."
40. c45j - October 14, 2008 3:50 PM
""It is almost pushing the limit of how much light can be absorbed into one material."
neat.
41. CaptainMorgan - October 14, 2008 4:55 PM
Toby's ankle still wins.
42. Clint - October 14, 2008 5:30 PM
From the article: "The Indian-born Ajayan holds the 2006 Guinness World Record as co-inventor of the smallest brush in the world."
I bet you he even had a hand in the 3 ply TP work. I wish I could sit around all day and invent things...
43. Benjamin Tudino - October 14, 2008 5:56 PM
#42 - he was also really good as the cab driver in the terrorist scene in jackass 2.
44. ahha - October 14, 2008 6:19 PM
They didnt invent a color. They invented a material. Its not like theyre gonna make clothes out of this stuff. Itll probably be used to make tea kettles, horse shoes, butterfly knives, hunting bows, turtle feeders, back scratchers, unicycles, train undercarriages, sprinklers, wind chimes, and toasters. It cannot be used to make ANYTHING else.
45. LSDiesel - October 14, 2008 6:22 PM
It makes your everyday black look like grey.
46. Naconacon - October 14, 2008 10:50 PM
Soo.... does this mean they'll use that on Solar-powered heater and some other Solar-related product?
(yes, I know this thing isn't designed to convert sunlight into power. I'm talking about heat.)
47. off topic - October 15, 2008 12:37 AM
This is about the imposter....At one point are you just talking to yourself so it seemes like you're actually conversing with the real version, and if so do you have so low of self-esteem that you care naught that you're slowly degrading your own identity for a few laughs?
48. Muryu - October 15, 2008 5:18 AM
Thats just a really dark Blue, only priests socks are actually black
49. KingBling - October 15, 2008 7:35 AM
Now then, Now then..
The most absorbant material ever made was my wallet, hold up any money near to it and watch the wallet absorb them notes....
Hey presto, its gone from your hand to my wallet..
So forget black being the new black.... as my wallett is this years new black.
50. ninjamemnoch - October 15, 2008 10:17 AM
F*** YEA!!! Hell, I'd wear it!
51. Cyberwulf - October 17, 2008 4:03 AM
@ everyone above and below me: Your mom is blacker than black. She has a penis to match too.
52. louis vuitton - September 27, 2009 7:15 PM
THERE BOTH GAY AND THE GUY ON THE RIGHT PULLED IT OUT OF THE OTHER GUYS ASSHOLE.