Partitioning the Outburst Energy of a Low Eddington Accretion Rate AGN at the Center of an Elliptical Galaxy: the Recent 12 Myr History of the Supermassive Black Hole in M87

1 code implementation • 2 May 2017 • W. Forman, E. Churazov, C. Jones, S. Heinz, R. Kraft, A. Vikhlinin

A deep Chandra observation of M87 exhibits an approximately circular shock front (13 kpc radius, in projection) driven by the expansion of the central cavity (filled by the SMBH with relativistic radio-emitting plasma) with projected radius $\sim$1. 9 kpc.

Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena