Dissipation of light?

[Porkbutts]

not to be off topic, but lol, i was just pondering something as well. A lot of TV shows portray a black hole as a dark hole in space or spinning nothing ness. But since a dark hole attracts all light since its gravity is so high, wouldn't the light not be able to reflect back? So you wouldn't be able to see a black hole at all?

I've seen pictures of black holes where theres like gases surrounding it, maybe that kind of explains it.

I also read somewhere that as one slowly approaches the horizon of the black hole, time slows down more and more. So eventually when you reach it, a viewer from a reference point would you see stuck at the point of the black hole for an eternity.