Would you say that black is a colour, or an absence of light? and do you believe it occurs in nature? Thanks :)

Question: Would you say that black is a colour, or an absence of light? and do you believe it occurs in nature? Thanks :)
- Keywords:
  black,
  colour,
  light
Asked by primroseeverdeen to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 14 Mar 2012.
- Karen Masters answered on 14 Mar 2012:
  
  We see something as black when it does not reflect any of the light which falls on it. That’s why black clothes make you so hot in the sunshine – they absorb all the light from the Sun and turn it into heat.
- Adam Stevens answered on 14 Mar 2012:
  
  I answered this somewhere else but now the link isn’t working! I think you managed to break I’m a Scientist!
- Leila Battison answered on 19 Mar 2012:
  
  Black is an absence of light – but you can get it when you mix all the colours together (after you get brown), so it might seem like a colour too.
  
  Black is an artist’s nightmare (I’m an artist in my spare time), because there are so many types: really dark blue, really dark red, mixed together cyan magenta and yellow… and none of them look quite the same!

Question: Would you say that black is a colour, or an absence of light? and do you believe it occurs in nature? Thanks :)