Pasting illustrator object in Photoshop causes lines to change color

I've never had this problem before, but today when I cut and paste from illustrator to photoshop, the lines aren't black anymore, they're a shade of grey. When I double click the smart object to go back to illustrator, they show correctly as being black. The opacity of the smart object is 100% so I have no idea what's going on or how to fix it. Help!

I'm a moron. A MORON!!!!
I just noticed today that even though my black on white illustrator lines looked black, they were, in-fact, not black. Therefore, when I transferred them over to PS, of course they weren't black! They were a dark grey, same as in Illustrator.
Thanks everyone for entertaining an idiot, but the problem defintiely is solved now.

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