Glitches like this one were the reason einstein worked so hard at coming up with a new explanation. he wanted to account for everything. his ideas about curving space may sound bizarre, but they work! they took care of the gaps in newton's theory and explained mercury's orbit. they led scientists to predict shifting starlight and black holes. all of this is powerful evidence that einstein was on to something. —a black hole is not a hole, carolyn cinami decristofano based on this passage, draw a conclusion about what einstein was like as a scientist.