Blackbody effect hypothetical question

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According to the blackbody effect, can something be so hot that it emits no visible light?
I say this because the more heated an object is, the more it moves away from the visible light spectrum, does that apply until there is no light at all?
 
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As you heat a body, the energy it emits in any particular wavelength band strictly increases, so even though you are proportionally increasing the amount emitted in UV or x-ray, you are still increasing the amount in the visual spectrum.
 
Nabeshin said:
As you heat a body, the energy it emits in any particular wavelength band strictly increases, so even though you are proportionally increasing the amount emitted in UV or x-ray, you are still increasing the amount in the visual spectrum.

As demonstrated here:-

F18-02%20Planck%20black%20body.jpg


I would like to know if it ever gets 'blue hot'.

Google says yes - blue stars.

http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/education/senior/astrophysics/photometry_colour.html
 
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