

NASA actually created an animation simulating what it would look like to fall into a black hole. In short, you’d see the outside universe warped into a circle directly opposite the direction of the singularity, with black all around it. This is ignoring the accretion disk that the other commenter pointed out, although that sits well outside the event horizon and I’m not sure off the top of my head how much of that light escapes inwards towards the black hole versus outwards.




I just want to add that apart from time dilation, velocity also causes length contraction wherein an object will be measured as shorter when it’s moving relative to the observer versus from its own rest frame. I’ve always found it (and time dilation) to be very unintuitive to reason about with my monkey brain - relativity in general is just super weird.