NASA's new superblack material

[PortalHunter]

Hey, that NASA article was posted in 2011. I did some rooting around and that's approximately around the time when NASA and the US Army began funding for carbon nanotube telescope shielding.

Quote from Wikipedia's Super black

In 2011, NASA and the US Army began funding research in the use of nanotube based super black coatings in sensitive optics.[5]

I'm pretty sure Vantablack is commercially available now. It had some popularity on social media sites last year.


http://www.surreynanosystems.com/

Vantablack is reported to absorb up to 99.965% of visible light.