The safest Black hole
After the movie Interstellar hit the general public, many have made themselves familiar with the idea of black holes. You know... the big vacuum cleaners present in space that sucks up everything that goes close to it, even light particles aren't spared.
If one of these would appear close to our solar system, the results would be catastrophic even before it made it as far as Neptune. But this post isn't about any of those monsters.
This is something that already exists on the planet, but instead of sucking on matter, it can only suck in photons (Light particles).
This substance is named as VANTABLACK. The Vanta in the beginning of the world is an acronym for Vertically Aligned carbon Nano-Tube Arrays. The material is composed on hollow carbon nano-tube, which is so minute in comparison that it's 1/10,000 the size of a human hair. However 99% of vantablack is made of empty space.
This allows photons to be trapped between the tubes and is turned into heat.
First attempted by Surrey NanoSystems in 2012 and was successfully released in 2014. The first version of Vantablack absorbed a staggering 99.965% of visible light that hit it.
Later in 2016, Another version of VantaBlack came to be known world-wide as Vantablack 2.0. It's so dark that scientists themselves aren't able to calculate just how much of the light is being absorbed by it. It is officially the darkest material created in a laboratory.
A black-board in a classroom, reflects about 6-7% of visible light and hence the texture can be made closely identified, however a 3D object coated with vantablack appears as a 2D object to human eyes. The textures cannot be identified as there is negligible light being reflected back from the object. A ball would appear as a circle and a cube as a square.
One can even put a laser light on any item made of vantablack and see that there is no light hovering within the premises of it.
The newest trend of this material comes in form of vantablack S-VIS, which can be used as a spray. it absorbs 99.98% of ultraviolet, infrared and visible light. However if you are planning to utilize it for personal needs, it's still not available for customers in general.
The enormous possible practical applications of this ranges from coating the inside of a telescope for a better view to providing a unique quality for luxury items.
If one of these would appear close to our solar system, the results would be catastrophic even before it made it as far as Neptune. But this post isn't about any of those monsters.
This is something that already exists on the planet, but instead of sucking on matter, it can only suck in photons (Light particles).
This substance is named as VANTABLACK. The Vanta in the beginning of the world is an acronym for Vertically Aligned carbon Nano-Tube Arrays. The material is composed on hollow carbon nano-tube, which is so minute in comparison that it's 1/10,000 the size of a human hair. However 99% of vantablack is made of empty space.
This allows photons to be trapped between the tubes and is turned into heat.
First attempted by Surrey NanoSystems in 2012 and was successfully released in 2014. The first version of Vantablack absorbed a staggering 99.965% of visible light that hit it.
Later in 2016, Another version of VantaBlack came to be known world-wide as Vantablack 2.0. It's so dark that scientists themselves aren't able to calculate just how much of the light is being absorbed by it. It is officially the darkest material created in a laboratory.
A black-board in a classroom, reflects about 6-7% of visible light and hence the texture can be made closely identified, however a 3D object coated with vantablack appears as a 2D object to human eyes. The textures cannot be identified as there is negligible light being reflected back from the object. A ball would appear as a circle and a cube as a square.
One can even put a laser light on any item made of vantablack and see that there is no light hovering within the premises of it.
The newest trend of this material comes in form of vantablack S-VIS, which can be used as a spray. it absorbs 99.98% of ultraviolet, infrared and visible light. However if you are planning to utilize it for personal needs, it's still not available for customers in general.
The enormous possible practical applications of this ranges from coating the inside of a telescope for a better view to providing a unique quality for luxury items.
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DeleteThis is a beautiful piece of research. Very well written on a subject that is not known to a major chunk of our society. This is definitely going to serve as a learning tool to so many who are fascinated by Science. Great Work Zac. Keep publishing more on such interesting and varied topics that alot aren't exposed to.
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