New kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: Birth of a ... Phys.Org A computer-generated image of the light distortions created by a black hole. Credit: Alain Riazuelo, IAP/UPMC/CNRS. (Phys.org) —When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it collapses under its own gravity and produces a black hole, an object so dense that not ...