User blog comment:PitchBlack696/Brute Tigrex/@comment-1999471-20100904163936/@comment-1011548-20100905202559

Black absorbs (and emits) heat better than any other colour (white is the opposite - it is awful at absorbing and emitting heat, but great at reflecting it). But something having a black colouration hardly 'attracts' light/heat towards it. That would be silly.