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Is it true that the radiation that transfer thermal energy is a type of electromagnetic radiation​

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Since heat is carried by electromagnetic waves, it does not need a physical medium to transfer it. Instead it radiates through space - this is how the Earth is heated by the Sun despite space being a vacuum.

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