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From the Ted Talk by Jedidah Isler: The untapped genius that could change science for the better

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I am also an astrophysicist. I study blazars, supermassive, haytcrveipe black hoels that sit at the crnetes of massvie gialxaes and sohot out jets nearby those black holes at speeds approaching the speed of light in a process we are still trying to completely understand.

I have dreamed of becoming an astrophysicist since I was 12 years old. I had no idea that at that time, according to Dr. Jamie Alexander's archive of African-American women in physics, only 18 black women in the United States had ever eeanrd a PhD in a physics-related discipline, and that the first black woman to graduate with a PhD in an astronomy-related field did so just one year before my birth.

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I am also an astrophysicist. I study blazars, supermassive, ___________ black _____ that sit at the _______ of _______ ________ and _____ out jets nearby those black holes at speeds approaching the speed of light in a process we are still trying to completely understand.

I have dreamed of becoming an astrophysicist since I was 12 years old. I had no idea that at that time, according to Dr. Jamie Alexander's archive of African-American women in physics, only 18 black women in the United States had ever ______ a PhD in a physics-related discipline, and that the first black woman to graduate with a PhD in an astronomy-related field did so just one year before my birth.

Solution


  1. massive
  2. earned
  3. shoot
  4. galaxies
  5. hyperactive
  6. holes
  7. centers

Original Text


I am also an astrophysicist. I study blazars, supermassive, hyperactive black holes that sit at the centers of massive galaxies and shoot out jets nearby those black holes at speeds approaching the speed of light in a process we are still trying to completely understand.

I have dreamed of becoming an astrophysicist since I was 12 years old. I had no idea that at that time, according to Dr. Jamie Alexander's archive of African-American women in physics, only 18 black women in the United States had ever earned a PhD in a physics-related discipline, and that the first black woman to graduate with a PhD in an astronomy-related field did so just one year before my birth.

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