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> then you will only see the star as pitch black, since light can't even escape it

Would it be black? Right above the event horizon is flaming relativistic matter.




That's true but afaik time dilation makes it rather dim infrared radiation.


On the inner-most layer, yes. But outside of that, it will be less dim and less infrared.




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