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¿Question #5294?
phantomvortex: In space, is it just the darkness that makes it black?

ocdspectrum: No, it’s the absence of light.
Vospire: No it's the lack of light
Randy Cox: Nope, it's the black stardust that fairies threw around during an all-night party many years ago
Felimid: There's no light at the end of the wormhole.
ReHerakhte: No, it's the intergalactic suckage sucking all the colours out
forthur: No, it's the limited spectrum our eyes can perceive.
ChonChuuk: Of course.
DasViktor: No, the walls of the universe are painted black. I always thought they should have gone with a neutral color, more for resale value.
topherbear: Yes.
calavera1945: no, its the absence of light.
Polgara: no, the lack of light
WatchmanX2000: Nope, it's the massive specks of light suckers.
Hector Vortac: There's just no place to plug in lamps.
bugink: no, it is the licorice as well
fenwic: By definition. (Or the lack of an energy source and matter to radiate it.)
hbirger: No
ZiggyZambo: No, it's your eyes
DHEK: Yes.
InShaneee: Sort of. When you're looking into the blackness, you're not seeing anything (ie, light not reflecting off anything), so you see black.
eddyspaghetti: The speed of dark is slightly faster than the speed of light.
2amp: no, lack of light makes it dark. or is it that a day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine. i forget
Dark Slayer: No it is ones imagination gone awry
ronster0: no, its the absence of light.
jeffwolfe: no
adde: yes i think so
Captain_Physics: Yes, the only time anything is black is when it absorbs light. No light = dark.
brainrob: Isn't it the lack of light?
jchernofsky: it is the vacum
mrspank: No, it's the absence of light.
Znirk: That, and the absence of light.
Avatar_69: No. It's not dark in space. There's just no medium for light to be diffracted like on Earth
chockle: lack of light
ststrat: Yes, the bits wherre you see no light is because no light is being reflected back from there.
trojandoc: huh?
bigbadsteve: its actually just the curtains
djlg: No
Beowulf: "Darkness" is a misperception. It's the absence of light that makes it black.
Karlsen: It certainly helps
javelin98: No, it's the lack of matter for light to bounce off of.
Tushratta: No it's that there's nothing to reflect the light.
nathanholden: No
scriptorum: Are you a twit?
richdknows: 42
POvidiusNaso: It's the tar.
chaddyboy_2000: I guess.
CortexBomb: I really have no idea...they've been bandying the existence of dark matter for some time now, but I haven't read up on it much
Lord_Prussian: The absence of anything I believe is what makes it dark and black
jttm: No no, its the lack of sunlight.
skelebone: Yeah, that must be it.
CDRodeffer: No. There are other things in "space" that block or absorb light.
phantomvortex: Yes.