Name: Mitch T Wilcox
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Question:
What is the color of the Sun? What factors does its perceived color
depend upon?
In a black hole is energy created or destroyed?
Replies:
The spectrum of the Sun is many colors. The dominant color is determined
by the average temperature and for the Sun is in the yellow - orange. The
color we see is about right. Our eyes have adapted to see in the light of
our star. The dominant color is proportional to the temperature.
Black holes are basically large masses that have collapsed onto them-
selves. They suck things in and convert some gravitational energy to other
forms.
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