Alien World is Blacker than Coal

[sephirajo]

Cambridge, MA - Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet - a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it, making it blacker than coal or any planet or moon in our solar system

Comments

[just_say_narf]

Sounds awesome though borderline creepy.

[mhael]

Yeah, like some kinda Hell Planet, or the one The Doctor found orbiting the black hole that had the mythological Devil/Satan/Guy in it.

[buttersbooboo]

Creepy was my first thought too!

How much blacker could this planet BE?

[mhael]

None. None more black. :)