toxcspdrmn writes "Bad news for Spinal Tap fans. The BBC reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have produced the darkest known material by manufacturing "forests" of carbon nanotubes. This forms a surface that absorbs or scatters 99.9% of all incident light."
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This is a nice rebuttal to all those readers who couldn't take Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun seriously as sci-fi because the protagonist had a cloak made of "fuligin, the color darker than black".
Fuligin is here (Score:1, Offtopic)