Red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and black. Wait is black a color or is it a shade? Or is it a state...like metallica's fade to black. Black Black b-mack
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a blackbody emits a continuous spectrum, meaning all wavelengths are emitted from it and none are absorbed and scattered. For example, our sky is blue because shorter light wavelengths (such as blue) are absorbed and scattered by the atmosphere. Longer wavelengths (such as red) don't get absorbed. Space appears black because there is no atmosphere to scatter the light waves. So yes, you could basically see black as an absence of color. but yeah, as Atsumi said, light-black and paint-black are completely different. [Edited on 2/25/2005 9:58:49 AM]