Caption: Artist's misconception of a black hole with event horizon, accretion disk, and radiating plasma helixing along arcing magnetic field lines.
Note nothing can escape from within the event horizon, but from just outside escape is possible with enough energy.
The image is, in fact, somewhat inexplicable by yours truly.
Yours truly thinks the anonymous artist is probably trying to meld a structural diagram with a semi-true image of what an observer would see if they were there in a way that makes sense. But they fail. So close to a black hole, light rays would follow curved paths (i.e., be gravitationally lensed) to the eye of the observer and the observer would see a rather distorted image.
In yours truly's opinion, the image is an artist's misconception.
The observer, by the by, is in peril. Without enough kinetic energy, they would fall into the black hole. But maybe it's OK inside.
Credit/Permission:
XMM-Newton,
ESA,
NASA,
Anonymous artist,
circa or before 2001
(uploaded to Wikipedia
by User:St0rm~commonswiki,
2005) /
Public domain.
Image link: Wikipedia: File:Black hole (NASA).jpg.
Local file: local link: black_hole_artist_misconception.html.
File: Black hole file:
black_hole_artist_misconception.html.