interacting group of galaxies?
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WizardHowl
The radio emission in the centre is bent and could either be originating in the elongated IR source in the centre or an overlapping IR source to its 1 o'clock. A fainter part of the radio emission could possibly be associated instead with the bright radio/IR source to its right as the radio emission almost joins up. The smaller patch of radio emission below right is associated with a slightly irregularly-shaped IR source, which may or may not be related to the other bright IR sources clustered in the centre of the image. If it is, this might be a bhgroup candidate. The clustering of bright IR sources overlapping and in close proximity suggests some of the galaxies may be related/interacting.
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