Do black holes appear the same no matter what direction you see them from? Every one of the theoretical views (and indeed the "real" one) are the same. I get

Do black holes appear the same no matter what direction you see them from? Every one of the theoretical views (and indeed the "real" one) are the same. I get the layman's description of why and how spacetime curvature causes it, but do they look the same if you view them from the plane of the accretion disk vs through the "poles" because of this?