The Colour Black: Research

Black is the color of coal, ebony, and of outer space. It is the darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light. It is the opposite of white and often represents darkness in contrast with light.

Art
Black was one of the first colors used in art. The Lascaux Cave in France contains drawings of bulls and other animals drawn by paleolithic artists between 18,000 and 17,000 years ago. They began by using charcoal, and then made more vivid black pigments by burning bones or grinding a powder of manganese oxide.

Black was the color of the industrial revolution, largely fueled by coal, and later by oil. Thanks to coal smoke, the buildings of the large cities of Europe and America gradually turned black. Charles Dickens and other writers described the dark streets and smoky skies of London, and they were vividly illustrated in the engravings of French artist Gustave Doré.

Fashion

Women's fashion was revolutionized and simplified in 1926 by the French designer Coco Chanel, who published a drawing of a simple black dress in Vogue magazine. She famously said, "A woman needs just three things; a black dress, a black sweater, and, on her arm, a man she loves." Other designers contributed to the trend of the little black dress. The Italian designer Gianni Versace said, "Black is the quintessence of simplicity and elegance," and French designer Yves Saint Laurent said, "black is the liaison which connects art and fashion. One of the most famous black dresses of the century was designed by Hubert de Givenchy and was worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Astronomy

• A black dwarf is a hypothetical stellar remnant, created when a white dwarf becomes sufficiently cool to no longer emit significant heat or light. Since the time required for a white dwarf to reach this state is calculated to be longer than the current age of the universe (13.8 billion years), no black dwarfs are thought to exist yet in the universe.
• A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return. It is called "black" because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics.

Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings. By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses may form. There is general consensus that supermassive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies.

• Black body radiation refers to the radiation coming from a body at a given temperature where all incoming energy (light) is converted to heat.

• Black sky refers to the appearance of space as one emerges from the Earth's atmosphere.

Biology

Black Mamba from Africa is one of the most venomous snakes, as well as the fastest-moving snake in the world. The name comes from the black color inside the mouth.

The Black Widow Spider, or lactrodectus.The females frequently eat their male partners after mating. The female's venom is at least three times more potent than that of the males, making a male's self-defense bite ineffective.

Black Panther is actually a melanistic leopard or jaguar, the result of excess melanin in thier skin caused by a recessive gene.

The Crow one of the most intelligent animals in the world.

There where also lots of other meanings and uses for the colour black, such as political and religious ideas, but I don't want to make any statements or offend anyone, I don't think that taking ideas from them would be appropriate, and other connotations of black where, death and mounting, again inappropriate and things like evil and darkness, which again I don't think would be appropriate, the above I have mentioned for a reason, I think that appropriate visuals could be taken from them for a piece for the stock. 

I think there are many visuals and concepts I use in answer to the brief, I feel that it is appropriate to relate the meanings or derivatives of the colour black to the paper range that is black.