In case anyone is wondering what it is https://www.surreynanosystems.com/...ack/vantablack-s-vis

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I am pretty sure it is possible, might be a little expensive though. However you might feel disoriented riding a bike painted with it.

It would be cool on a disc...just a gaping maw of a black hole.

There are other companies that make other similar products as a sticker. It may not be 99.96, but its close enough that you can't see reflections, thus contours.

Where can you buy the sticker version?

http://www.acktar.com/
By the way, it isn't cheap!

That would be hilarious. Never mind me riding a black hole.

Here's a basketball painted with vantablack:

http://i.imgur.com/19YYs7h.jpg

Looks like a photoshop right? It isn't. Edit: never mind. Bryan's article had the same picture.

That would be awesome but I think the light absorbing properties are damaged with any contact or abrasion.

Even better, add some spirally swirls around the edge.

The fine nanometre-sized optical cavities that make Vantablack S-VIS so dark mean it cannot be used in environments open to direct contact and mechanical abrasion. It needs to be protected from accidental touching, for example behind or inside a component, or situated where contact is avoided.