Would looking out from inside or near a black hole be unimaginably bright? I have the following assumption based on limited knowledge.
A black hole appears dark to us because any light that would be emitted from it, and any light that passes nearby, is caught by the gravity well and either captured or bent from its original course.
If this is true, from any point within the gravity well or towards the center of a black hole, looking outward there would be immense amounts of light and radiation coming in.
Edit for specificity:
The idea is not necessarily that a human or object would be looking out while at a point, but theoretically a fixed point that has light and matter passing by.  Of perhaps if we somehow invented something capable of not exceeding but matching the gravitational force and could stay still.  Or a sensor reading at a certain point, pointing a camera or infinite lumen sensor outward.
 A: Anything that crosses the event horizon (including light) will swiftly proceed towards the "central" singularity (at least until it crosses the inner horizon; we will get back to that). In particular, it is impossible for an observer to hover inside the black hole. Hence any observer will be falling further down the black hole. However, it is possible for light to catch up to the falling observer. The amount of light observed in a particular time interval is however always finite, for any timelike observer.
At least this is the picture for non-spinning/non-charged black holes. Generic black hole solutions with spin or charge will feature two horizons, an inner and outer horizon. Inward motion is only necessary in the region between the two horizons. One definition of the inner horizon is that it is the boundary of the causal future of the region outside the black hole. For an observer falling into the black hole this means that as he is about to cross the inner-horizon (and he must do see in a finite amount of time), he will witness the all the light signals that entered the black hole after him for the entire future of the universe. Because the signals are compressed into a finite amount of time, both their intensity and blueshift will diverge before crossing the inner-horizon.
One consequence of this is that the naive picture of the black hole as a vacuum solution breaksdown at the inner-horizon, and we can therefore no longer trust this solution. It is expected that these divergent perturbations lead to the formation of a spacelike or lightlike singularity at the location of the inner horizon. This expectation is sometimes known as (a version of) the strong cosmic censorship conjecture. Its exact status (and the nature of the singularity at the inner horizon) is subject of ongoing scientific debate.
A: The light is not exactly bent from it's original course, the blackhole curves spacetime and the light follows that curvature. The thing is that the time component of "spacetime", as well, is bent near a black hole, so that as the light approaches the event horizon, the time it takes (from an outside perspective) for the light to get closer and closer to the event horizon gets longer and longer such that eventually, for the light to proceed an inch closer to the horizon, in the necessary time elapsed the universe would have died. So there is, seemingly, a paradox here, in the "time" it takes you to "perceive" anything at the event horizon (assuming you somehow can survive the gravitational tides) the universe would have ended. Of course your experience is separate and equal from an outside perspective and time would feel normal to you, but the question is, if the universe in which you are contained is destroyed in a different perspective, what happens to you from your own perspective? There really is no currently conceivable way to know the answer to your question.
