How do black holes “consume” light?
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Very little light actually gets sucked into a black hole (and surprisingly little matter actually).
Really, just about any light that would have passed by the event horizon will get bent towards it, but will till ultimately continue past it, with its trajectory changed.
Even with matter, unless it’s falling straight in, it’s going to speed up its “orbit” as it gets closer to the black hole and the accretion disk is so intensely energetic from all the compression of matter that it actually pushes back and keeps most of the matter from falling in in any kind of timely manner.
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