Possible Evolution of XMM-2599 (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Possible Evolution of XMM-2599

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The three panels show, from left to right, what XMM-2599's evolutionary trajectory might be, beginning as a dusty star-forming galaxy, then becoming a dead galaxy, and perhaps ending up as a "brightest cluster galaxy," or BCG.

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NRAO/AUI/NSF/B. Saxton; NASA/ESA/R. Foley; NASA/StScI.

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