I have recorded some data as npy file. And I tried to diplay the image (data[0]) to check if it makes sense with the following code

import numpy as np
import cv2

train_data = np.load('c:/data/train_data.npy')

for data in train_data:
    output = data[1]
    # only take the height, width and channels of the 4 dimensional array
    image = data[0][0, :, :, :]
    # image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
    cv2.imshow('test', image)
    print('output {}'.format(output))
    if cv2.waitKey(25) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        cv2.destroyAllWindows()
        break

But if I display the images without the line image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB) the images seem to be BGR based. If I comment this line into the code the images are displayed correctly.

My question: Does this observation imply that the image array is already in BGR format? Or does this imply that cv2.imshow() does by default interprete the array as BGR array?