Question

In this artist’s illustration, a massive star comes to a spectacular end, its gases rebounding from the dense center and surging outward in bursts of light, heat, and motion.

Which excerpt from "Black Hole Beginnings" would this image best support in a multimedia presentation?

Before a star is a star, it is an enormous cloud of gases.
As the nuclei meld, a smidgen of their matter vaporizes into energy.
It pushes on the star's outer gases, which flow outward in giant surges of heat and light.
Tighter and tighter the material contracts, crunching in so fast and so hard that it is destroyed.

Answer 1

Answer: Option #3

Step-by-step explanation:

Because the excerpt seems to be describing the events of a supernova, the only answers that make sense are the third and fourth ones. Since the collapse of a star during its death results in the rapid expansion of gas, light, and heat, this narrows it down to the third option, which described just that.