r/spaceporn • u/[deleted] • Apr 10 '19

First ever real image of a black hole

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u/SculptusPoe Apr 10 '19

So it's really redder than red.

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u/TemperVOiD Apr 10 '19

I’m gonna take a wild guess here on the color of the black hole, but I think it might just be black.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Black is not a color

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u/TemperVOiD Apr 11 '19

Yes and no. In the sense of a black hole, it has no color because there is no light, it's being swallowed up. So we perceive an absence of color, or more accurately and absence of light, therefore appearing "black".

So yeah, over all, a black hole is just colorless.