Upon closer inspection and observations using additional instruments, scientists determined that the blast of X-ray energy was coming from a star ... the black hole is spinning.
The white dwarf, or dead star, in question is the compact companion of the star HD 49798, which is located around 1,700 light-years away from Earth with a mass around 1.5 times that of the sun.
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