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Inside an event horizon, orbiting implies traveling faster than c from your reference frame. No can do.

(Note: this applies to an electrically neutral non-rotating black hole.)

Since the event horizon itself is supposed to be a fairly non-event to cross, why can't you just fly in a lazy circle around a large black-hole at a relatively "safe" distance and maintain an orbit that's decaying only very slowly?

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