my favorite color is black. it's a very contradictory statement to say black is a "color", however. if you paid attention to 10th grade biology, you'll probably know that black is rather a lack of light than a part of the UV spectrum. the sky doesn't produce the color black, night just stays like that because of the lack of illumination. so it's not really a color perse, but i'll count it as one for all of this post's intents and purposes. continuing, i like how naturally black fits into everything in general. since light is a binary state (either there is or there isn't), black is the universe's way of making a system. with the use of the 1's and 0's of light, the universe turns into this very chaotic and beautiful mess, especially when space nebulae get into the mix. seeing the high contrast between the presence of light and not is always a fantastic sight.
since your retinas scan and absorb light, each color is perceived in a different way in regards to that light. utilizing contrasts to make certain accentuations to designs is always going to go very nicely with your eyes. reducing light creates this darker feel in the contrast spectrum, making it so certain things are easier for your brain to perceive, such as white text on a dark gray background. your eyes do a lot of effort to stay open and scan light for your occipital lobe, which is why black goes really nicely for you, since it's the absence of light. since black reduces the contrast of light, we can also see how it's used in relation to dark mode for certain applications or websites. since screens emit blue light due to the photoeletron effect along with the heat to produce light, black reduces this light and makes the photons you perceive have a lower brightness, giving your eyes a lot of comfort.
black, in general, goes well with everything. because it doesn't have color, it isn't in a palette. we can use and abuse of that to design multiple elements around the color black. laptops, chairs, televisions, practically anything modern will come in either a black or white tone. this monotony of modern design is facilitated by this idea of a lack of palette. the polar ends of color (white and black) can be used interchangeably and freely for any set of colors, making it so modern designs like those fancy rich people suburban houses either fit in or contrast with the ambient, purely utilizing this idea of contrast. now, it should be denoted that you can't actually see the purest form of black. we only see something because there is a light to it. when you close your eyes, you aren't seeing black, you're just not seeing. your eyelids closing stops you from perceiving more light, so you aren't actually seeing anything. given this, certain aspects of black automatically fit to palettes because of real world contrast. using pure forms of black like those 98% light absorbing colors will indeed contrast, but we don't have access to mass production of these resources, so we just see dark gray with blue-ish tints and pretend it's black. not that we don't know what black is, but what we see is different from, for example, what a computer perceives as pure black.
the nature surrounding black is a beautiful thing. though i talked briefly about it in the first paragraph, it's time to address the elphant in the room: black holes. black holes are stars that have died and imploded into what we call a "singularity". multiple types of singularities exist, each with their own gravitational pulls. these pulls are so strong that they warp the concept of spacetime as we know it. when you first enter the event horizon, the singularity literally becomes a point in your future, because it is the edge of time. when you get spaghettified[1], your branch of time stops existing. since it isn't really a place, it also has no form, so we don't really know what it looks like. anyways, remember how i said its gravitational pull is so strong it can warp spacetime? consequentially, it also warps light! this means that black holes are the only natural way to see what true, pitch black looks like. since they pull light towards them, they create this sphere like border of black and rings of light orbit around certain singularities. this is arguably the only way to see what nothing is. and from the images we can see? it's beautiful. nothing and everything at the same place. how paradoxical, how intriguing, how beautiful.
in short: i like the color black! it's present in various gorgeous ways of nature and the biology behind light perception is always something that intrigued me, coming from when i was a wee lad learning basic color theory. i like how it fits into every palette, and how it adapts but also contrasts to certain environments. yay. i'll see y'all later!! :]