Is black light a thing?
I already posted on r/nostupidquestions before anyone redirects me there.
Also, before you say that’s literally just darkness, just hear me out please lol. Despite it being called a lightbulb, can a lightbulb, or just bulb, emit light that is the color black? This sounds pretty damn stupid but bear with me. I was daydreaming today, not while typing this post, about a house with light bulbs that emit all different colors, including black.
Is this possible at all in real life? Can a bulb create the color black without the influence of any external environment, in the same way light bulbs create sparks of incandescence that become light? Can you create a shadow out of thin air, with nothing around it?
I get that this was originally about whether we could make whatever black light is to help see in the same way a normal light bulb works, but now I’m more curious
But wouldn't that mean that there is visible and invisible light? If black is when all visible light is absorbed by something? (This is a serious question)
Most light is invisible! Visible light is just a tiny fraction of the light spectrum. Invisible light includes radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma.