A bright horizontal line extending from a bright center. Star gases extend from the center as well. 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.