Hi,
Mmm, it must be my imagination, did I feel a gentle pull at my leg?
Whatever, my understanding is that the vast gravity of a black hole distorts the very fabric of space and time around itself. It is not that space-time is static and unaltered there, and then gravity acts on light just by itself.
This distortion has the result that light, which would normally be travelling in more or less a straight line, and at or nearly the speed of light (of course
), cannot escape because the very path of the light through the fabric of space is warped, bent back and redirected inside the event horizon.
If you could ride a photon, you would not perceive it being any different at all (but what a ride
) .
Cheers