What is the most likely source of the hot gas halos (with temperatures of 10 million K) within galaxy clusters?
A) ram pressure stripping of molecular clouds within galaxies
B) the individual halos of the constituent galaxies
C) by-products of stellar fusion
D) gas expelled from a central active galactic nucleus
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