These ultrablack fish are on par with the blackest artificial pigments:
“A feat of engineering allowed humans to best them all with synthetic materials, some of which reflect only 0.045 percent of incoming light. (“Black” paper, on the other hand, returns a whopping 10 percent of the light it meets.)
Now, it seems fish may come close to trouncing them all.
One species profiled in the paper, a bioluminescent anglerfish in the genus Oneirodes, reflects as little as 0.044 to 0.051 percent of the deep-sea light it encounters. The other 99.95 percent, Mr. Davis and his colleagues found, gets lost in a labyrinth of light-swallowing pigments until it effectively disappears.”
The use of ultrablack combined with bioluminescence is especially interesting — the fish puts a glowing lure to attract other fish, and has ultrablack skin to stay nearly invisible as the prey approaches.
He didn’t invent it, he purchased an exclusive license to use Vantablack in art.
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“A feat of engineering allowed humans to best them all with synthetic materials, some of which reflect only 0.045 percent of incoming light. (“Black” paper, on the other hand, returns a whopping 10 percent of the light it meets.)
Now, it seems fish may come close to trouncing them all.
One species profiled in the paper, a bioluminescent anglerfish in the genus Oneirodes, reflects as little as 0.044 to 0.051 percent of the deep-sea light it encounters. The other 99.95 percent, Mr. Davis and his colleagues found, gets lost in a labyrinth of light-swallowing pigments until it effectively disappears.”
The use of ultrablack combined with bioluminescence is especially interesting — the fish puts a glowing lure to attract other fish, and has ultrablack skin to stay nearly invisible as the prey approaches.