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An astronaut, let's just think theoretically here, hypothetical. An astronaut is traveling through space using his or her jet pack and all of a sudden finds him or herself drawn into a black hole's mouth. First off, you'll experience light. The light momentarily blinds you. You'll see white, blue, and red stars are glowing in the darkness. You experience no up or down. Nothing except your spacesuit separates you from the vacuum of space. As you look towards the star field in front of you, there is nothing but darkness. No stars, no light, just complete darkness. And it's here that you realize a black hole is very close because nothing can escape, including light. In fact, all knowledge ceases inside a black hole and nothing can escape in the space's information from the depths beyond the event horizon. So once it gets past the event horizon, unless the black hole starts evaporating, no information is coming out.