Scientists say there are about one billion carbon nanotubes in a square centimeter of Vantaa black.

It's one of the darkest man made substances in existence.

And though it was originally designed to help with space engineering, it's found other uses from providing a bottomless looking background on a $95,000 watch to cloaking a building in South Korea's 2018 Winter Olympic Park.

Vantaa Black absorbs 99.96% of the light that hits it.

It makes three D objects look flat.

So how is it possible that Vantaa Black could eventually help us see things we can't see now?

It is so black, it looks like a mistake.

Allow these things might look black and we might even call them black.

But they're not actually true black.

But this this is closer to true black, and it's revolutionizing everything from space exploration, toe architectural.

It's very hard to comprehend the blackest black in the world.

I mean, you hear it, it makes sense.

You think you can conceptualize it, but seeing it is something very, very, very different.

No so black that it changes dimensionality of an object.

It's not a color, it's the absence of color.

So it's what happens when you have no light reflected back to the viewer.

You see nothing so your brain paints.

It is black.

It might look like paint, but it's actually made up of microscopic carbon nanotubes, which are grown in a lab just outside of London.

It's made from individual carbon nanotubes.

Those carbon nanotubes like very, very long blades of grass.

You imagine if you're a human walking around in grass 1000 ft tall, how little light would get down to you?

It's kind of like that, but on a very, very tiny scale, it's pretty much like a a black hole.

That's an interesting comparison, because this material is helping scientists peer deeper into the heavens than ever before.

Acting a bit like a lens hood for a camera van to black basically prevents lens flares in powerful telescopes.

Reducing that stray light allows us to see some of the faintest and most distant objects in the universe.

So the closer we get to achieving absolute black, the more we're able to explore the blackness above.

But space isn't the only frontier artists, designers and musicians want to get their hands on Vantaa Black.

Asif Khan is covering a building inventor black for the 2018 Olympics.

When people look at this building, they will see a sort of schism in space.

It'll be like you're looking into the night sky.

In fact, we're creating a kind of star fields within its blackness, so it will look like the Milky Way.

But you'll be seeing it in broad daylight.

The ability of anti black is to really make us think, Maura, about the light that we have access to it.

It's got the ability to make us realize what a precious resources is.

Mm.