Ideal Black Material

Appropriate for this blog alone, the BBC reports that researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York have created the darkest material ever created.  This material was created from carbon nanotubes and described as "the closest thing yet to the ideal black material."  Be still my heart!  And lest you think such a thing has no practical use, the researchers propose uses in electronics and solar energy (really black stuff absorbs light ideally).  Next on the market: carbon nanotube velvet suits!