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.