Does photon capture in a black hole (or any other "very compact" object) reduce the luminosity/photon flux from its self isotropic emission? I don't know if this is even a feasible question or if I have a point in asking so.
Let's say we can model the radiation coming from a very compact object, such as a BH with an accretion disc or any star with proper dimensions (for example, with its disc/gravitational radius within its photon sphere $R_\gamma = 1.5 R_s=3M$), as a black body radiating isotropically. I guess we can do so, since we cannot imagine any good reason for discarding this approximation in them!
What I try to ask is basically if we should modify the formula for blackbody emission or whatsoever bolometric magnitude/luminosity in such an object, given that we already know a radius and an effective temperature (we are using $L = 4\pi \sigma R^2T^4$ here). And also considering that due to the strong curvature some photons emitted in the surface of the disc/atmosphere will be returning inside and will never reach us...
Due to bending and lensing, supposedly we have only a sector from the compact object that will be sending photons outside, cf. MTW pp. 675 or Shapiro &amp; Teukolsky pp. 352:
when measuring the subtended emission angles from a local static observer.
What I'm sure to know and explain with my own words is that the emitted photon flux reduces when we measure it as receivers on Earth, due to this capture.
Let's answer the question from the point of view of a stable neutron star.
The luminosity is
$$L_0 = 4\pi R_0^2 \sigma T_{0}^4$$
in the inertial frame of the neutron star surface (assume a non-spinning object).
For a distant observer, the radius of the neutron star is (e.g. see Haensel 2001)
$$R_{\infty}= R_0 \left(1 - R_s/R_0\right)^{-1/2}\, ,$$
the temperature is
$$T_{\infty} = T_0 \left(1 - R_s/R_0\right)^{1/2}\ ,$$
and the luminosity
$$L_{\infty} = L_0\left(1 - R_s/R_0\right)\ .$$
$R_s$ is the usual Schwarzschild radius.
I think the fact that $L_{\infty} &lt; L_0$ is the effect you are talking about.