after the black of dark in space is there light?
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The universe is expanding as the speed of light.  If you stand at the outer edge of universe, you will see black and darkness on both sides because light emitted from stars hasn't reached you yet and nothing is on the outside of expanding universe.
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assuming you are far enough from the singularity to not be pulled apart the light would seem normal.\n\nTheres a hitch though.  I believe that inside black holes that massive amounts of light / photons exist and you would be blinded by entering it.  I have posted my idea on another question if you care to look it up.\n\nNow to the hitch.  Lets imagine yours is the only light and you could see it for an infinite distance.  In time it would look as if the light was being bent to in the rotation that you had shined it.  The reason for this is that the black hole has warped the space time or the fabric of space, so the light will be following the contours of the warped fabric.\n\nYou would not die after entering a black hole.. well not instantly.  but as you traveled towards the singularity your speed would reach light speed.  at which time, time to you would stop and you would never notice that you had been pulled apart by the absolutely huge gravitational difference between your head and your feet.
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Matter that is in space but is not visible to us because it emits no radiation by which to observe it. The motion of stars around the centers of their galaxies implies that about 90% of the matter in a typical galaxy is dark. Physicists speculate that there is also dark matter between the galaxies but this is harder to verify.\nhttp://pdg.web.cern.ch/pdg/cpep/glossary.html\n\nMatter that does not emit enough light or other radiation to be observed directly. Most of the matter in the universe is believed to be of this type. Cold dark matter had a low velocity compared to the speed of light during the epoch of recombination. An example would be elementary particles with mass about equal to that of a proton or higher. Hot dark matter had a high velocity (near the speed of light) during the epoch of recombination. An example would be light elementary particles.\nhttp://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/cosmology/glossary.html\nIn cosmology, dark matter consists of matter particles that cannot be detected by their emitted radiation but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter such as stars and galaxies. Estimates of the amount of matter in the galaxies, based on gravitational effects, consistently suggest that there is far more matter than is directly observable. ...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
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I believe the correct term that you are looking for is "dark matter".\nConsider this: If all of space is filled with very bright stars, then why is it mainly dark.\nScientists came up with the theory of "dark matter", theoretical matter that absorbs the brightness of the stars.\nHowever, my theory is that space is just so completely vast and the stars are so far apart that there is just not enough light to fill it.\nConsider this: you are standing in the middle of a large room with no light. You take out a flashlight...how far can you see? It depends on the size of the room, right. If it is a small room, then the light beam from your flashlight may be able to reach one wall of the room...but say this room is very very large. Would you be able to see the wall then, considering you are standing in the middle of the room?\nSpace has no walls or boundaries...how far would your flashlight see then?...\nSo that's the "dark matter" theory and my theory.\nCiao!
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Isn't black the absence of color? So there would be no wavelength to the color...
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black is the absence of color
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If you shine a flashlight in a dark room, the beam of light must hit an object in order for you to see it. If there is nothing to obstruct the light, then you will still see a dark room despited the flashlight. The same is with the sun, the planets are visible because they obstruct the light and reflect it back to our eyes. Everything else is black because there is nothing there.
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Light fades into darkness.White is the amalgamation of all colour,black is the elimination of all light.neither is a colour.
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Black is the absence of light.  If black holes suck in light too then they can't be black inside surely?
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Almost any light can be seen from space. It just depends on what kind of telescope you have.\n-Brandon Everett Spurgeon
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Of course. Look to the notheast after midnight for the next few nights and be patient; depending how dark your sky is you may only see a few an hour.
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The Big Bang theory offers a resolution of your question (also known as Olbers's Paradox). In a universe with a beginning we can receive light only from that part of the universe close enough so that light has had time to travel from there to here since the Big Bang (about 10 billion years ago). So, even if space extends infinitely far, only a limited region, and a limited number of stars, are visible to us. And the accumulated light from this limited number of stars is not sufficient to spoil the darkness of the night sky.\n\nGod is spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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Its a cute question. :-)\nLet me explain it this way.\n\nShadows arent necessarily objects themselves. \nThey are just a patch of surface, which dont recieve direct light from the source (sun, lamp etc), but only recieve the scattered rays of light. \nAnd for this reason, these patches are dimly lit, making it look darker than the surrounding, which in our daily terms is 'black'. :-)
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dark is the absence of light. This may sound glib, but on a quantum level, the concepts on light and dark (and most other human experience) are non-sensical - like asking what the colour red ate for breakfast.\n\nCurrently, light is composed of photons to which our eyes have a sensitivity, and we "see". It is thought that photons and all other energy and matter, is composed of different sized strings vibrating at different frequencies and patterns.\n\nWhat is darkness? It is MOST LIKELY, the absence of these photons (and strings) - but then on the other hand, according to quantum theory, it may not - it could be that the darkness in composed of strings too.
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A black hole, by definition, doesn't emit light; photons can enter the event horizon of a black hole, but cannot emerge from it. If you can't see a black hole, then how do you know it's there?? In order to detect a black hole, you have to be devious and use indirect methods. \nThe method of detecting dark objects by noting their gravitational effect on luminous objects is a very old one. \n\nThe planet Neptune was first discovered from its gravitational effect on the planet Uranus. \nThe white dwarf Sirius B was first discovered from its gravitational effect on the star Sirius A. \nA black hole can be discovered from its gravitational effect on luminous matter (stars and/or hot gas).\n\nIf a black hole exists in a close binary system, it can be detected indirectly. Gas ripped from the companion star will spiral in toward the black hole. As it does so, it is heated up (by tidal heating, and by friction as it rubs against neighboring gas). The hot gas emits X-rays as it undergoes its death spiral to the event horizon. (Once it's inside the event horizon, we don't see the gas any more, but it's highly visible as long as it's outside.) If you are hunting for black holes, it's good to start by looking for binary star systems which are also strong X-ray sources. \n\nAbout a dozen other black hole candidates, with masses up to 10 solar masses or so, have been found in binary star systems within our galaxy. (We don't expect too many black hole stellar remnants, given the scarcity of the extremely massive stars which are their precursors.) \nAn interesting recent development in astronomy is that supermassive black holes (that is, black holes more than a million times the mass of the Sun) are found at the centers of many galaxies. Our own galaxy, for instance, has a black hole with mass 2.6 million Msun at its center, 8000 parsecs away from us. Our own galactic black hole is actually fairly wimpy. The Andromeda Galaxy, 700,000 parsecs away, has a black hole with a mass of 30 million Msun. \n\nHow do you go about hunting such supermassive black holes? As usual, you go about it indirectly, by looking at the orbital motion of gas and stars near the centers of galaxies. For instance, the observation of stars near the center of our own galaxy has revealed that they are orbiting a massive object with M = 2.6 million Msun. The closest star to this massive object comes within 17 light-hours (120 A.U.) of its center. The only plausible way to cram 2.6 million solar masses of stuff into a sphere 120 A.U. in radius is to make it all into a single big black hole. (For instance, if you tried to make a cluster of a million neutron stars 120 A.U. in radius, the collisions between neutron stars would make them all merge into a single big black hole within a few hundred thousand years.)
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Sorry but darkness is not a measurable thing. the absence of light however is! The absolute absence of light leaves the condition referred to as darkness. likewise cold does not exist only the absence of heat. thermal dissipation is the term I believe so I guess we could call darkness, photonic dissipation? wink wink nudge nudge.
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Its still a little bit dark and the light from earth when reflected back to the moon enables u 2 see the dark side of the moon but this will only happen when there is not enough light to block your view.