Disclaimer: I am not a physicist.
Sorry, but no. And not for the reasons you're thinking. From the point of view of an external observer, a body falling into a black hole will take forever to reach the event horizon.
That doesn't even make sense. By that logic, nothing can ever fall into a black-hole. Everything that ever got caught up by a black-hole would be visible on the surface.
I highlighted a key phrase. Relativity matters here. An external observer will never see a body that has passed inside the event horizon, because (as
sol invictus explained) light that originates inside the event horizon cannot escape past the event horizon.
From the point of view of an observer falling into a black hole, passing through the event horizon involves no fanfare. (Requiem would be more appropriate, because an observer who has fallen through the event horizon is doomed. For small black holes, it may take less than a millisecond to reach the central singularity. For larger black holes, it takes longer; their gravitational pull is stronger, but the event horizon is larger/farther out.)
So it seems that the Wikipedia version of the scenario is outdated and inaccurate. An object falling into a Black hole would quickly fade out.
That's because light is quantized. If light were classical, light coming from the object would quickly fade out and red-shift into sub-Hertz frequencies, but would never actually reach an intensity or frequency of zero. The Wikipedia version takes that classical view, which is (as you say) outdated and inaccurate. Baez takes the quantum view.
Of more interest, it also says that light emitted at the event horizon or within it will never escape to large distances, which suggests that light (or radio waves) emitted from just inside the event horizon can escape for short distances, maybe it could be possible for a probe just outside the event horizon could pick up a signal from a probe just inside, and pass it on to the next probe behind before it too falls through.
Not so, as
sol invictus has already explained.
ETA: I believe it is possible for an observer just outside the event horizon to send a probe through the event horizon and to observe that probe's signals sent from within the horizon, but that implies that the observer will also be inside the event horizon when it observes those signals. As I understand current theory, it is never possible for an observer outside the event horizon to observe signals that were sent from inside the event horizon.
The space/time is so curved at the event horizon that light travels in circle along the event horizon around the black hole and cannot escape.
Even if light is directed radially outward, the spacetime curvature is so radical that the outwardly directed light falls into the central singularity instead of passing beyond the event horizon. (Inwardly directed light falls into the central singularity faster, of course.)
In a physics-for-poets metaphor: The black hole's gravity is so strong that it's pulling space itself into the central singularity faster than outwardly directed light can travel through that space. (One of several problems with that metaphor is that it tends to evoke an inaccurate concept of space tearing at the event horizon, when it's really all of space that's being pulled/stretched, without any tearing, into the black hole. The event horizon is the surface at which that metaphorical inward motion of space balances an outwardly directed ray of light's outward motion through that space. Inside that surface, light loses its metaphorical race to escape. Just outside that surface, outwardly directed light can escape with considerable red-shift and accompanying loss of energy.)
