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

科學家說，在一平方釐米的萬塔黑中，大約有10億根碳納米管。

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

這是最黑暗的人造物質之一的存在。

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.

雖然它最初的設計是為了幫助太空工程，但它也找到了其他用途，從為一塊價值9.5萬美元的手錶提供無底線的外觀背景，到為韓國2018年冬奧會公園的一棟建築進行隱蔽。

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

Vantaa Black能吸收99.96%的光線。

It makes three D objects look flat.

它使三個D物體看起來很平坦。

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

那麼，萬塔黑怎麼可能最終幫助我們看到現在看不到的東西呢？

It is so black, it looks like a mistake.

黑乎乎的，看起來像個錯誤。

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

允許這些東西可能看起來是黑色的，我們甚至可以稱之為黑色。

But they're not actually true black.

但他們其實並不是真正的黑人。

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

但這個這個更接近於真正的黑色，它對太空探索、腳趾建築等一切都有革命性的影響。

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

很難理解這個世界上最黑的黑。

I mean, you hear it, it makes sense.

我的意思是，你聽了，很有道理。

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

你認為你可以概念化，但看到它是非常、非常、非常不同的東西。

No so black that it changes dimensionality of an object.

沒有黑到改變物體的尺寸。

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

這不是一種顏色，而是沒有顏色。

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

所以當你沒有光線反射到觀眾身上時，就會發生這樣的情況。

You see nothing so your brain paints.

你什麼都看不見，所以你的大腦就會畫畫。

It is black.

它是黑色的。

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.

它可能看起來像油漆，但它實際上是由微觀碳納米管組成的，這些碳納米管是在倫敦郊外的實驗室裡生長的。

It's made from individual carbon nanotubes.

它是由單個碳納米管制成的。

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

那些碳納米管像非常非常長的草葉。

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

你想象一下，如果你是一個人，在1000英尺高的草地上走來走去，那你身上的光線會有多少？

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

有點像，但規模非常非常小，就像一個黑洞。

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

這是一個有趣的對比，因為這個材料正在幫助科學家們比以往任何時候都更深入地窺探天象。

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

作用有點像攝影車的鏡頭罩變黑，基本上可以防止強大的望遠鏡的鏡頭眩光。

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

減少這些雜散光，讓我們可以看到宇宙中一些最微弱、最遙遠的物體。

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

所以，我們越是接近實現絕對的黑色，就越能探索上面的黑色。

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

但空間並不是藝術家、設計師和音樂人想要得到Vantaa Black的唯一疆域。

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

阿西夫-汗正在2018年奧運會上蓋了一個建築發明家黑。

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

當人們看到這個建築時，會看到一種空間的分裂。

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

就像你在看夜空一樣。

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

其實，我們在它的黑夜裡創造一種星域，所以它看起來會像銀河系。

But you'll be seeing it in broad daylight.

但你會在光天化日之下看到它。

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

反黑的能力是真正讓我們思考，毛拉，我們能接觸到它的光。

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

它有能力讓我們意識到資源的珍貴。

Mm.

嗯。