It is for this reason that MWNTs are also being studied as an ideal coating ... in growing super-black on flat pieces of silicon, but this wasn't massively useful as most instruments consist ...

Researchers have created the blackest black ever made on Earth, by bubbling a shiny metal plate in nitric acid for a few seconds. This new super-black coating produced by Richard Brown and his ...

Photo: Jin et al. Black coating, on the other hand, is ideal for absorbing light. However, it is often too fragile to survive in space. “It is also difficult for many other coating methods to ...

reflected light from interfering with instruments like star trackers and telescopes. The super black coating made its debut in space on a European microsatellite launched in December 2015.

A section of the super-black coating, which was grown on smooth ... This is because more than 90 percent of the light Earth-monitoring instruments gather comes from the atmosphere, which ...

"If you see it on a 3D object, like crinkled foil, the coated side still looks like a black two-dimensional ... benefit scientific instruments and eventually provide "a unique aesthetic" to ...

MIT engineers have created a blackest black coating from carbon nanotubes that ... has attracted interest from the aerospace industry. Instruments such as the cameras and telescopes used for ...

The Materials Coating Experiment can be ... NASA Goddard/Chris Gunn An emerging super-black nanotechnology that promises to make spacecraft instruments more sensitive without enlarging their ...

Coating cymbals is undoubtedly a tricky business and, on face value, Zildjian has fulfilled its brief admirably, creating a range of instruments with a distinctive ... Over the years, rock and the ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as a tidal disruption event ...

They also incorporate black paint in their stargazing processes, coating their devices with such pigment to reduce stray light as much as possible and provide the best picture and performance they ...