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The reason I heard that black holes are black is because any light that trying to leave the black hole's gravity gets sucked in by the massive amounts of gravity.
So this implies that light can curve or even reverse direction if enough gravity is present. If this is the case then what stops a black hole from acting as a slingshot? I am asking if a black hole could cause light coming from Earth to bend around it (like an asteroid slingshoting around a planet) coming back to earth? To us it would look like a earth-like planet on the other side of the galaxy or universe but in reality we would be looking at Earth millions of years in the past (i.e. no signs of civilization or anything else that would indicate that it is Earth not another inhabitable planet)
So this implies that light can curve or even reverse direction if enough gravity is present. If this is the case then what stops a black hole from acting as a slingshot? I am asking if a black hole could cause light coming from Earth to bend around it (like an asteroid slingshoting around a planet) coming back to earth? To us it would look like a earth-like planet on the other side of the galaxy or universe but in reality we would be looking at Earth millions of years in the past (i.e. no signs of civilization or anything else that would indicate that it is Earth not another inhabitable planet)