What if Black is not Black at All?

Why is Black color Black?

We all must have studied long back or maybe recently that black is the color that absorbs all the light and so we are not able to see anything in that place and it starts to appear black.

In the above image you can see that how limited we are able to see and many of us must have studied this many times. In this VIBGYOR there is no Black color that is mentioned why is that have you ever wondered? I know there are many other colors that are formed by the combination of the VIBGYOR

I was studying the limitations of the colors that our human eyes are not able to see. There is something interesting that came up from Wikipedia:

“A chimerical color is an imaginary color that can be seen temporarily by looking steadily at a color for a while until some of the cone cells become fatigued, temporarily changing their color sensitivities, and then looking at a markedly different color. These colors include:

·         "Stygian blue": stare at bright yellow, causes a dark blue afterimage, then look at black: the blue is seen as blue, but seems to be as dark as the black. The eye retina contains some neurons that fire only in the dark.

·         "Self-luminous red": stare at green, causes a red afterimage, then look at white: the red seems to be brighter than the white.

·         "Hyperbolic orange": stare at bright cyan, causes an orange afterimage, then look at orange: the resulting apparent orange color may be purer than the purest orange color that can be made by any normally-seen light.”

Do you see how much we are fooled by our eyes itself even in the most basic colors that we see every day? But in this plot, I’m particularly interested in the color black, as this has been the color that has scared us in the nights, this has been the color that is used for spooky nights in the movies, this has been considered as the color of evil and this is the color if the universe and black holes.

I believe that it is just our eyes who are tricking us to fall for something like this. There might be some color in place of this and we are not able to contemplate with the same.

Image if we were able to see at much higher frequencies, we would have been able to see the microwaves, infra-red, or any other they we would have been able to see the communication waves that we are surrounded by each day. The waves of your Wifi at home, the waves emitted by the ovens, the mobile-satellite connection waves and so much more like we have seen in movies these days but thinking one step ahead, there are so many unresolved queries that we have for the universe, if our eyes are able to see beyond certain colors and wavelengths image the we would be able to uncover the dark blanket under which the secrets of the universe might have been hidden.

My inclination towards Black is because of the Color of the Universe. I don’t see any research that is conducted on the color Black. There has been some theory that was evolved years back about black color is generated when all the colors are absorbed at that place and it has still been used but can there be a flip side to the same coin?