The blackest material

0:00 There is a material that swallows almost all

0:02 the light hitting it.

0:04 Made of tiny carbon tubes,

0:05 the coating traps more than ninety-nine

0:08 percent of light,

0:09 so an object looks like a flat black hole

0:11 with no shape.

0:12 Staring at it is disorienting —

0:15 the eye finds no detail at all.