Scientists have created the 'blackest material ever made' which absorbs 99.96 per cent of light and is ten times blacker than anything made before. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) covered a £1.6million diamond with the substance in a bid to prove its blackness. The hi-tech, 'cloak-like' material was made from carbon nanotubes (CNT) and grown on aluminium foil, absorbing 99.96 per cent of light - making it the ...