> You stick your hand into / past the event horizon. That wouldn't really happen. When people say that light cannot escape, they don't mean that a beam of ligh

> You stick your hand into / past the event horizon. That wouldn't really happen. When people say that light cannot escape, they don't mean that a beam of light can't pass the horizon heading outwards, they mean that the curvature of spacetime is such that the photons will always curve back around and fall back into the hole. Locally, the horizon will look more or less the same to you, except at high curvature you'll start to see Doppler shift of light from outside vs. inside. At extreme curvature, an arm pointed towards the singularity will look red shifted and an arm pointed away from the singularity will look blue shifted. Although at this level of curvature, you'd already be ripped apart so you wouldn't really notice anything at all.