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Black holes don't emit light from inside the event horizon. Ouside, space is incredibly warped due to the high gravity. So much so that light can actually orbit a black hole which is why it's depicted with the glowing accretion disc - you're seeing light caught by the gravity, bent, and then thrown off because the orbit isn't stable. This leads to odd effects such as extreme gravitational lensing where objects behind the black hole sometimes appear as distorted images around its edges.
Interestingly, space and the light near it is so distorted near them that if you were to, from your initial perspective throw a ball straight at what you perceived to be the center of a black hole, you'd probably miss it entirely.
Anyway, to answer the question, it's possible for the black hole to theoretically illuminate Miller's Planet because of how light is bent around it. Some of that light will get thrown towards the black hole facing side.
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Black holes don't emit light from inside the event horizon. Ouside, space is incredibly warped due to the high gravity. So much so that light can actually orbit a black hole which is why it's depicted with the glowing accretion disc - you're seeing light caught by the gravity, bent, and then thrown off because the orbit isn't stable. This leads to odd effects such as extreme gravitational lensing where objects behind the black hole sometimes appear as distorted images around its edges.
Interestingly, space and the light near it is so distorted near them that if you were to, from your initial perspective throw a ball straight at what you perceived to be the center of a black hole, you'd probably miss it entirely.
Anyway, to answer the question, it's possible for the black hole to theoretically illuminate Miller's Planet because of how light is bent around it. Some of that light will get thrown towards the black hole facing side.