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  2. Shades of black - Wikipedia

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    Black is a color, the perception of which is evoked by the total absence of light that stimulates any of the three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye and with very low brightness compared to the surroundings. A black visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness. Black is the darkest possible color.

  3. Vantablack - Wikipedia

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    The name is a portmanteau of the acronym VANTA (vertically aligned nanotube arrays) [5] and black. The original Vantablack coating was grown from a chemical vapour deposition process (CVD) and is claimed to be the "world's darkest material" absorbing up to 99.965% of visible light measured perpendicular to the material.

  4. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Brown colors are dark or muted shades of reds, oranges, and yellows on the RGB and CMYK color schemes. In practice, browns are created by mixing two complementary colors from the RYB color scheme (combining all three primary colors). In theory, such combinations should produce black, but produce brown because most commercially available blue ...

  5. Ultra-Black - Wikipedia

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    Ultra-black is one of the darkest shades of the color black.An ultra-black substance is defined as reflecting less than 0.5% of the light that hits its surface. [1] This color is part of the natural coloration of some species of birds-of-paradise, butterflies, and fishes, and ultra-black components are used in telescopes, cameras, and solar panels to improve the efficiency of light capture.

  6. TrES-2b - Wikipedia

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    1885 +51. −66[4] K. TrES-2b (also known as Kepler-1b or GSC 03549-02811b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star GSC 03549-02811 located 750 light years away from the Solar System. The planet was identified in 2011 as the darkest known exoplanet, reflecting less than 1% of any light that hits it. Reflecting less light than charcoal, on the ...

  7. Black hair - Wikipedia

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    Black hair is the darkest and most common of all human hair colors globally, due to large populations with this trait. This hair type contains a much more dense quantity of eumelanin pigmentation in comparison to other hair colors, such as brown, blonde and red. [1] In English, various types of black hair are sometimes described as soft-black ...

  8. Black people - Wikipedia

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    Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned ...

  9. Category:Shades of black - Wikipedia

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