{"id":927,"date":"2003-02-07T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2003-02-08T08:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/08\/blacker-than-black\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:53:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:53:51","slug":"blacker-than-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/07\/blacker-than-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacker than black"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15307,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newscientist.com\\\/news\\\/news.jsp?id=ns99993356&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041204072145\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.newscientist.com:80\\\/news\\\/news.jsp?id=ns99993356&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 16:59:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 16:59:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15308,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2003_02_01_archive.html#90289227&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110623145752\\\/http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2003_02_01_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 16:59:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 16:59:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>For my last birthday, my parents <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/birthday_presen.html\" title=\"Birthday presents\">sent me<\/a> a t-shirt with the phrase, &#8220;I&#8217;m only wearing black until they make something darker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, according to New Scientist, researchers just did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99993356\" title=\"Mini craters key to 'blackest ever black'\">make something darker<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Researchers have created the blackest black ever made on Earth, by bubbling a shiny metal plate in nitric acid for a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>  It reflects 10 to 20 times less light than the black paint currently used to reduce unwanted reflections in instruments. And this means the super-black coating may one day help improve the vision of the Hubble Space Telescope, says Nigel Fox, who heads the optics group at NPL.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, so forget the telescopes. When can I start buying new clothing?<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_02_01_archive.html#90289227\" title=\"None more black\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created the blackest black ever made on Earth, by bubbling a shiny metal plate in nitric acid for a few seconds. It reflects 10 to 20 times less light than the black paint currently used to reduce unwanted reflections in instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[514],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}