Gene Huskk (Earth-Prime)

"This people, they will not be brought out of the shadows easily! They live in the darkness, the absence of light! They call themselves Black Hole."

- Gene Huskk on Black Hole

Gene Huskk (died January 2020) was an McCulloch Technologies R&D employee that discovered Black Hole inside McCulloch Tech.

Early life
At some point, Gene Huskk worked at McCulloch Technologies and had been working in the classified R&D department for over 20 years. After someone called "Malcolm Strombard" was hired, Gene caught him with an infrared photon rifle that was under development. The following day, Gene discovered that both him and the rifle had disappeared. By doing research, he also discovered that "Malcolm Strombard" didn't exist. When questioning McCulloch Technologies over this, Gene was subsequently fired.

Iris West-Allen source and assassination
Gene then came to the Central City Citizen, and exposed Black Hole to Iris West-Allen. During a meeting with Iris, Gene was murdered by Doctor Light, who had original sent to assassinate Iris.

Trivia

 * In the DC Comics, Dr. Huskk is a scientist working for Black Hole.