The Hunt for the Blackest Black

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[@Chihirolee3]

My sense of humor is so dark, Anish Kapoor tried to trademark it.

[@petergerdes1094]

Omg this is such an underrated comment.

[@sulaimankhan3867]

Did you provide a link to Anish Kapoor? I saw that part highlighted blue

[@wikyWargaming]

BAHAHAHAHA YESSSSSS

[@En_theo]

I don't see what you did there. Mind to explain ?

[@pumpkin3.1415]

​@En_theo Basically Anish Kapoor bought the rights to Vanta-Black so only he could use it in art. It was really scummy and made a lot of people mad to the point that the folk who made Black 3.0 barred him from using their paint. It was a whole fiasco.

[@Gregnier]

To watch this video you must certify that you are not Anish Kapoor or watching it on behalf of Anish Kappor.

[@lashadi1445]

😂

[@TrailRat2000]

I still like the fact that Vantablack created a turf war amongst artists when one artist bought the rights to it and refused to let anyone else use it!

[@sarahleonard7309]

Yes! I have cheerfully benefited from that turf war for years by using the super black paint that (I'm sure many people have referenced already in the comments) you have to certify that you are not Anish Kapoor before you are allowed to purchase it!

[@jacquelynsmith2351]

"I'm only wearing black until they make something darker" - my high school science teacher. Well... he doesn't have to wait much longer!

[@swordmastersam483]

By watching this video I certify that I am not Anish Kapoor, nor am I acting on behalf of Anish Kapoor or any of their associates...

[@playgroundchooser]

😂😂 well played!

[@Dellvmnyam]

I like that the physical methods used to make surfaces absorb as much light as possible are in a nutshell the same as used to make walls as absorb sound e.g. to create "silent rooms".

[@ahoannon5711]

Same physics, just a slightly different scale.

[@MrGksarathy]

You're not dealing with an ordinary super black any more. This is....ultra black.

[@xtreme1002003]

I see a red door and I want it painted black. No colors anymore, I want them to turn black.

[@h7opolo]

"this wood has 24 karat gold plating. trust me."

[@Tahoza]

You might call it... gold leaf...

[@DenisRyan]

That last method was discovered here in British Columbia, and I'm friends with the first researcher listed on the paper! Hi Kenny!

[@gameflicks6781]

*Goes straight to comments

[@blc.phototherapy]

This title brought me here

[@nicktheslayer95]

The parallel upload with Jacob Gellars Fear of the Dark video was wild

[@GrimmDelightsDice]

I was literally about to comment on that. I need to jump over and put a comment + like on the youtube version of that video, thanks for reminding me!

[@Brownyman]

One day a radical faction of the Asteroid Belt might end up covering several rocks with this.

[@Mp57navy]

Beltalowda!

[@mauricerosser-hendrix1158]

I saw the title and all I've got to say is... I heard somebody say you were looking for me, well here I go!!!

[@quiestinliteris]

Stuart Semple materializes.

[@BOAYang]

We call him Dr.Umar

[@PixlyPenguin]

Europeans in 1800 be like:

[@richbuilds_com]

Savannah Geary is a *very* good science communicator

[@Dorgpoop]

The people who made vantablack were kind of dodgy. They let a single artist, Anish Kapoor, patent it's use as a colour for artwork exclusively for himself. Imagine having the audacity to try and patent a colour.

[@ultranovva]

Don't like most companies trademark the colors they use in their logos, at least only for only their type of store?

[@Dorgpoop]

@ultranovva They do, but that trademark only applies to logos that are similar or for a competing company.

[@_fishy]

It’s not really a patent, it’s just exclusive control of supply. Still one of the biggest middle fingers to the art world, and further cementing Kapoor’s legacy as the most hated and hatred-worthy artist in the world. If you’re ever in Chicago, try to get a model of the Bean sculpture. It will be incredibly difficult if you can find any. Want to know why? Look up the designer.

[@StardogTheRed]

Great video. Would love to see one on the opposite of this: the whitest white, so much so that it cools whatever surface it is painted on

[@pedroff_1]

actually, for it to cool the surface it's on, it doesn't just need to reflect light very well, but it also has to have a dip in reflectance right at the wavelengths of infrared normal-temperature objects emit by black body radiation.

[@2Burgers_1Pizza]

Rolling Stones in disarray after the black in "paint it black" now closely resembles a shade of gray.

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

Scientists are looking for the blackest black? Hold on, lemme get my friend.

[@heyitsjustjacob5308]

There’s the comment I was looking for!

[@CheapCreep]

⛹🏿‍♂️

[@toxicbagel]

I swear to god, if you're trying to help Anish Kapoor get his hands on another black paint, I'm telling Mom.

[@catalyst3713]

Das raycis or sumthin

[@manstonhisk667]

Where's Wesley Snipes.

[@Keyon_Wilson]

Darkness! - Rick James

[@FermentedOuroboros]

vantablack is a supervillain name fs

[@Kindrin]

I appreciate the update on this topic!

[@TehSymbiote]

Paul Mooney in a dashiki

[@YourQueerGreatAuntie]

This is super-cool! My foster sister's little sister worked on the original Vantablack project, and my friend's black cat became known as VANTABLACK (always all caps) because her photos looked like they had holes in them.

[@blab1231]

Right around Jacob Geller posted 'Fear of the Dark.' Serendipitous.

[@Pyrochazm]

Blacker than the blackest black times infinity

[@NolanWayne-h9n]

Lol this title SO doesn't sound good without context. Had me laughing for real

[@frogz]

jokes on you, i have a lcd screen, even blacks glow for me!

[@ortherner]

did the thumbnail change in front of my eyes

[@markedis5902]

Muso black is pretty good but expensive. Black 4.0 is supposed to beat it but I’ve yet to test it

[@unrightist]

Good thing we got our OLED TV to watch this episode lol

[@xVMouseVx]

That's just Tyrone, you can find him down the street

[@blahsomethingclever]

A multi structured nano film is needed. Like a forest where the trees have branches and those leaves. With different trees for different wavelengths.

[@CelestialSeerDragon]

"I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color" - Fall Out Boy

[@edl5731]

This is the darkest video on youtube,

[@fastrockproductions9788]

I saw the notification before the thumbnail change. I was going to watch the video either way I was just busy when it got uploaded

[@toozydude2]

Hmm but the solar cell technology is about anti-reflection, but not about maximum absorption. The absorption happens in the cell itself, while the dark colour is due to the anti-flection coating.

[@Rubrickety]

“How much blacker could this be? The answer is none. None… more black.” -Nigel Tufnel

[@adriannaconnor6471]

Your videos are awesome!!!

[@itchywitch5923]

Elder goth nerd here, very happy to become a void in the future. 🖤

[@cindystrachan8566]

I guess I’m stupid. Why would you need this? As Ian so wisely said, “You were so busy trying to find out if you could, you never stopped to ask if you should.”

[@gullinvarg]

They mentioned telescopes and ultra efficient solar panels in the video...

[@dc9926]

Can you do a show on the whitest white? I vaguely remember hearing about a company that created one and said if they could cover enough surfaces it would reflect sunlight enough to counter some climate change. My memory might be wrong of course.

[@WrottJackson]

Did you just casually mention possible vantablack or even darker SPIDERS?! Nature has gone too far! That’s just a cruel game for arachnophobes! They’re in the arctic, they’re in the desert, they’re in the ocean! There’s probably one in space right now!

[@nobelwarprize]

I learned today. 👏

[@rho-starmkl4483]

So that’s what they mean by “Advanced Darkness”…

[@kataseiko]

I wonder if anyone can make a black as black as described by Terry Pratchett, absorbing anything above infrared and turning it all into heat..

[@Tyroneology]

Wesley Snipes was found forever ago

[@L00_Cyph3r]

Finally, something that can compete with my humour

[@kerridior]

The answer is the G.O.A.T. Hip-Hop hype man Flava Flav. There, I saved y'all six minutes of watching this video

[@rickhobson3211]

Ok... where did you get your sweater?

[@G_Rad_Ski]

I like my coffee black as midnight on a moonless night.

[@rubenkoker1911]

11:45 lol vogelkop already means birds head

[@will-pk8hq]

Insane title

[@xoOPhoenixOox]

If we define black as the absence of refletions of any wavelength, woudn't that make a perfect vacuum 100% black, as it doesn't reflect any light?

[@trog7986]

No, because the light travels through the space, without a physical object to absorb the light it can't be (scientifically) "black".

[@user-rh6ru5oz2o]

"Super black wood"🤔🤔🤔

[@1chumley1]

Soot from burning acetylene is pretty dark.

[@andrewthompson6453]

you guys try Wesley Snipes

[@josicat4789]

Keep anish kapoor away from this video though! 🤫

[@kurtlindner]

Good video. I feel you missed a fairly large part of the story by not mentioning the butthole, Anish Kapoor, and his relationship with Vantablack.

[@Jobobn1998]

*Nathan Explosion voice* Blacker than the blackest black times infinity!

[@laser69beam]

None of those compare to my childhood…

[@peopledustcanada]

Platinum Chou Kuro Black fountain pen ink...

[@tarawolf425]

Black and yellow (gold) is back!

[@HisNameIsRobertPaulson01]

Didn't BMW cover a car with something like one of these materials?

[@BlakeMcCringleberry]

It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

[@wikyWargaming]

Black 4.0!!!

[@wikyWargaming]

But seriously, the stuff is so black it hurts to look at for too long.

[@mho...]

seems like the best "coating" for starships!, if you want to travel unbothered, dont be reflective!

[@Hobbes4ever]

its like emoer than emo

[@ttt5020]

The final sentence 😂

[@AmsterdamHeavy]

fuligin

[@pauljensen5699]

You probably have Dip Your Car's attention.

[@craigh5236]

Clever of using electrical charges to make it black. Its eating photons.

[@laanaalove]

My soul look like this

[@CaptainMarvelsSon]

I want to wear an ultablack t-shirt with a body-shape matching/proportioned to me image of the inside of the human body.

[@WrottJackson]

Isn’t it just the center of a black hole? No light escapes, can’t get any darker than that, right?

[@FattyAcids69]

Well if light can’t escape, it’d stand to reason that it’s actually quite bright in the center of a black hole, no?

[@Jobobn1998]

Actually, black holes do emit light via Hawking Radiation, so they're technically not absolutely black. In fact, ultra-small black holes (ones with a radius of around a proton) would emit a ridiculous amount of energy*, almost like a hydrogen bomb, as they rapidly shrink into nonexistence. *It should be noted that some models of black holes have some lower bound to what mass black holes will decay down to. But such mechanisms don't seem to have a ton of evidence at this stage, so we really don't know if such a boundary exists.

[@WrottJackson]

@ Black holes just seem to defy everything.

[@ivory7182]

Scishow forever

[@aSpyIntheHaus]

Nighttime! Datetime!

[@mellissadalby1402]

"just" with evolution.

[@sacramentallyill]

The Blackest Black is named Michael Blackson.

[@BOAYang]

😂😂😂😂

[@untalentedthe]

Guy, I’m literally… right here 🙂‍↔️

[@DrippyDerp]

What about the bluest blue???😉

[@mho...]

look at the sky?! 🤔

[@obiwanjacobi]

So is the reflectance of a black hole 0%?

[@mho...]

by definition, yes in detail, no

[@CheapCreep]

🍇🍗🍺🥃🏀💊💉🚔🚔🚔

[@brendakrieger7000]

🖤

[@rathernotsayatall]

Black too Black

[@jordanwhite352]

White Women: 👀

[@CheapCreep]

🆖

[@orangexylem]

Didn't we already find this back in 2008?

[@yarrlowbeard]

You're a great presenter

[@Janograd]

HOOD BLACK.

[@brianlamptey4823]

I was expecting something about genetics...

[@nariu7times328]

+

[@elwoodro9352]

Hank is god