Which line from a black hole is not a hole by carolyn cinami decristofano readers to connect the scientific ideas in the text to their own experiences? mercury's orbit—up close to the sun—has a blip in it that newton's laws can't explain. in this way of thinking, the "background" acted more like a flexible mat, or a stretchy knit blanket. [s]cientist karl schwarzschild began to think about what would happen if a place in space were extremely distorted. all of this is powerful evidence that einstein was on to something.

Read the passage below and answer the question. somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. in the excerpt above, the phrase "stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning" suggests that despite the heat, men still dressed up the men in the town were vain men's clothing appeared its best on hot days the men were not accustomed to wearing nice clothes