It’s a black so dark, some may say it’s blacker than their ex’s heart.

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled the “blackest black” – which is “10 times blacker than anything that has previously been reported”.

“The material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, or CNTs – microscopic filaments of carbon, like a fuzzy forest of tiny trees, that the team grew on a surface of chlorine-etched aluminium foil. The foil captures at least 99.995% of any incoming light, making it the blackest material on record,” a statement from MIT said.