A team of marine biologists has discovered 16 species of "ultra-black" fish that absorb more than 99% of the light that hits their skin, making them virtually invisible to other deep-sea fish.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia leveraged an unusual discovery into ultra-black material made from ... up at least 99% of incoming light. One of a number of prototypes for ...

Wasps aren’t normally admired for their looks, but one species—Traumatomutilla bifurca, a Brazilian velvet ant—is unlike any other. It has ultra-dark markings that reflect less than 1 ...

And while it might play a role in protecting the wasps from ultraviolet light, the team couldn’t prove that. Instead, the researchers propose that the wasps’ ultra-black is related to ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main types of black hole; stellar mass and supermassive black holes ...

“Ultra-black or super-black material can absorb more than 99 per cent of the light that strikes it – significantly more so than normal black paint, which absorbs about 97.5 per cent of light,” ...