If light cannot escape a black hole, could light orbit a black hole, and in theory if you could stand in that spot and look in the direction of the orbital path, could you see your back?

Question

The march 1993 cover of Scientific American magazine inspired me for this question when I was a kid.

In: Physics

Answer 1

Yes, just outside the event horizon you could see your backside whichever direction you look along the surface of the black hole. 

The part of the orange ring that loops up above the black hole on images is just you seeing its accretion disk from a top-down perspective behind the black hole. The light is bent about 90 degrees.