There may be some merit to that guess; a few minutes on Google shows that all three of the panelists that are being made available to discuss this finding specialize in things like star formation and black holes (although their presence could also be spun as finding another "earthlike" extrasolar planet, if some are only there as panelists to discuss x-ray astronomy).
Jon Morse - http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/organization-and-leadership...
Kim Weaver - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Weaver
Alex Filippenko - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Filippenko