Well, both of these theories could explain part of the data, but the difficulties were that the star showed no signs of being young, and there was no glow from any of the material that was heated up by the star's light, and you would expect this if the star was young or if there was a collision and a lot of dust was produced.
Entrambe le teorie  potrebbero spiegare parte dei dati, solo che la stella non mostrava segni di essere giovane e non c'era alcun bagliore  da nessun elemento scaldato dalla luce della stella, e ce lo saremmo aspettati  se la stella fosse stata giovane o se ci fosse molta polvere prodotta  da una collisione.