/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1717/all en /newsroom/channels/news/nasas-hubble-captures-blistering-pitch-black-planet-270306 <p>NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet outside our solar system that looks as black as fresh asphalt because it eats light rather than reflecting it back into space. This light-eating prowess is due to the planet's unique capability to trap at least 94 percent of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere.</p> Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:13:06 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 32288 at /newsroom