Could Earth be inside a black hole?

We see a. black hole illustration. It is surrounded by circles of blue and pink from its superheated accretion disc.

To Earthlings gazing into space, our solar system appears to be surrounded by billions of stars in the Milky Way. But if we look even further out, would it be possible to find evidence that we were in something even more fantastic, like a black hole? 

Black holes are places in the universe where gravity is so strong it distorts the time and space around it; once inside, nothing — not even light — can get out.