Not arguing but wouldnt something close enough to be getting sucked into a black hole, hypothetically, not be displaying light at this distance seeing how black holes "as we know them" absorb all light around them?

Like he said, the material was not beyond the event horizon, hence the object can still emit light without issues.
Black holes don't really absorb light around them, photons do not have mass so they cannot be affected by gravity in a traditional sense, rather the black hole's immense density bends and warps spacetime itself, so the light that collides with the black hole still travels in a straight line, but the spacetime it travels through bends it into the black hole, "absorbing" it.

Well, from the ages of 4-10 my father passed out in front of the T.V. drunk whilst watching the history channel and not having a remote to change it. While all in the mean time the History channel played space documentaries and I became to love it. I am still in love with space today and I can almost tell you every detail about space. and I can tell you that black holes do spew out light that can leave the gravitational field. although it isnt the light from around it, its from Hawking radiation caused from when a particle is generated from a black hole while at the same time losing an atom. It is possible the the light is hawking radiation being bent and shot out if its spinning fast enough.

Yes generally the light "from" black holes is generated by the matter around it that is spinning so rapidly the friction generates heat and radiates light