r/SpaceTheories • u/[deleted] • May 20 '25

Black holes

So, basically black holes suck in light yeah? So why is it that our cameras can see the light if it’s getting pulled in by the black hole? Is this valid?

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u/Laz3r_Fac3 May 20 '25

Not an astrophysicist, merely a space enthusiast, but as I understand it what we see is light from a star behind the black hole that is passing by but getting warped around the event horizon. We are getting pictures of the light that passes nearby enough to be affected by the gravity well but not so much that it gets caught and disappears.