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Well, assuming the room was dark, the light would shoot out of the pupil like a flashlight. All the pupil is is a hole, like your wife said. It's black because light doesn't reflect back from inside the eyeball to your eye. If you want proof of this, check out your next family photo. See the guy with red eye? That's the flash reflecting off the back of his eyeball and back out through the pupil. That's why redeye reduction flashes blink several times before the picture is taken -this shrinks the pupil and reduces the size of the hole, so not as much reflected light can get out.
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