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6. WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE FROM ALL OF THIS?

It is probably too early to draw conclusions from the evidence accumulated so far. However, it is becoming clearer that the small scale gas morphology indicates that the "early- type" galaxy population is far from "quiescent". Same can be said for "cD" galaxies in small/sparse groups. This would indicate that there is ground for more detailed studies of the high energy emission in galaxies; these might reveal unsuspected phenomena like shocks that are crucial for our understanding of the evolution of these systems. The multiwavelength approach is the only one that can provide a complete picture of all the forces at play, and the study of the gaseous components, though complex, has a very high potential for easy discovery of extreme, but perhaps not uncommon, phenomena.