Artist Anish Kapoor Acquires Exclusive Rights to Use Vantablack, the Darkest Pigment Imaginable
You may know artist Anish Kapoor for works like Chicago’s Cloud Gate or his Descension installation at the Chateau de Versailles, but the British artist’s next project might be a little more low key. So low key, in fact, that you might not be able to see it properly. Kapoor now holds the exclusive rights to the world’s darkest material, Vantablack, which absorbs upwards of 99% of all visible light radiation. The abyssal effect of the material has been likened to black holes, and its practical uses include the disguising of stealth jets and satellit