pakled wrote:
Does anyone actually
know what a black hole would look like to the naked eye? Most of our images come from Hollywood, not the stars...

Look up "Gravitational Lens" in Google Images.
It looks like nothing, with stuff behind it all twisted up
around it. It may have some kind of axial ejection of
matter that came close but didn't go in, and if it is in
a luminous nebula, MAYBE it would look like a black sphere
with rings around it. --- There are some strange ideas about
what you would see if it were possible to stay close
to the event horizon, as if things that fell in never do
from your point of view, but besides not being able to
look from there, the things that should seem to be on
its surface cannot emit any light to see them with.