Refer to the Newsela article, "Doctoral Student Played a Big Part in First Black Hole Photo." Question 1
Part A

Why has it been difficult to study black holes?

Telescopes powerful enough to see them have yet to be invented.

It was previously impossible to photograph them in space.

They are too large to measure.

Scientists have been focused on other projects.
Question 2
Part B

Which two sentences from the text best support the answer in Part A?

"The data used to piece together the image was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope."

"A supermassive black hole is the biggest kind of black hole, a NASA website says."

"Black holes can even pull light into themselves."

"Since we need light to see, we cannot see black holes."

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.