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Apart from the Black Hole, the new black material developed by NASA may be the most-efficient material to absorb light. It’s a special coating blacker than ordinary black materials, featuring an outstanding ability to absorb almost all the light that hit it. Through the visible spectrum it absorbs about 99.5 percent of the light hitting it, and at the ultraviolet and infrared ends the black coating sucks up to 98 percent of light. The coating is made from carbon nanotubes, and can be applied to many types of materials to form an absorbent coating on them.

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