One of my favorite novels is Gateway by Frederik Pohl, which had a description of black hole (from the point of view of people falling into it) as "so blue it hurt your eyes." I love that description.
But, what does it really look like? Something like this:
This is the view from your spacecraft's front viewport, at a distance of about 1.5 times the Schwarzschild radius. For the view out your side window and your rear view mirror, from this point and even closer, go to Step by Step into a Black Hole, a very interesting site by
Ute Kraus,
(Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Golm, and
Theoretische Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen
http://www.spacetimetravel.org). Go to the home page for other simulations, including soccer balls traveling at 0.99c.
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