[Falcon4.0]

I am not an astrophysicist or anyone of consequence, but why would the image of the light around a black holes distortion change in relation to the observer. This animation is contingent upon the suggestion that the light is coming from a flat plane one direction. Seems to me that Irregardless of which direction a black hole is observed, it would have the same appearance.

[MtnClimber]

This is showing how light bends around a black hole. The upper and lower arcs are actually behind the black hole and get bent around due to gravitational lensing. There may be black hole sceptics, but lensing around foreground galaxies has been photographed: