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Light colors are light because they reflect more light energy back to your eye. Dark colors are dark because they absorb more light energy. The extreme examples of this are white, which reflects all bands of light, and black that absorbs all light. When an object absorbs light energy it will dissipate this energy as heat, as a result darker colors, that absorbed more light, will dissipate more heat, making them feel hotter. An example of this is sitting in a car with leather seats in the summertime. Cars with black leather feel much hotter than those with brown leather.

Though color directly affects light absorption, it doesn't really effect heat absorption. The different colors don't change the amount of heat they absorb, but does affect the amount of heat they dissipate (give off).

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black objects are black because they absorb all the visible radiation that falls on it. that light is then converted into frared radiation which is essentially heat.

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