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What I would like to know, here, is what the motions are within those spiral streamers and their composition/components are. Whether they're mainly stars, or gas, or a combination of both....and in what direction they're flowing w.r.t. the central quasars. If it's a pair of radio loud quasars, then the underlying galaxies are ellipticals...radio loud quasars are all elliptical galaxies. That might point to the streamers as being mostly stars ejected from the two systems. If they're radio quite and most probably spirals, then we could have ejected material or material falling into the quasars/galaxies (or both). Right now, you'd only be guessing at what was going on...a lot more would have to be done with this and other quasar pairs to determine the mechanics of these systems.
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