05/09/2017
Calling colour nerds!
Vertically Aligned NanoTube Arrays aka Vantablack - certainly is the new black:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack
Vantablack is a substance made of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays[1] and is one of the blackest artificial substances[2] known, absorbing up to 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum.[3][4]