I think black holes are just holes in the space-time grid that look black. A photon can get out of anything because it is light.
But a photon cannot escape from below the event horizon of a Black Hole. Therefore, there is no photon below the event horizon. There is a HOLE. There is gravity...
I´ve advocated for some few decades for this electrifying OP, also in this present Religious Forum.
Most people knows the "Let there be Light" from the biblical Story of Creation. And of course this electrifying creation is still working all over the places.
Fortunately, there are more and...