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The Coevolution of Galaxies and their Supermassive Black Holes The evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies are intertwined, whether by a feedback loop, in which the growth of one limits the fueling of the other, or by a simple coincidence of physical processes affecting both systems. I will give an overview of the current observational constraints on black hole growth and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback from world-class observatories such as Keck/VLT, HST, and ALMA. AGN-driven winds have been observed in multiple wavelength regimes, confirming that this feedback can couple to multiple phases of the interstellar medium (ISM): ionized, neutral, and molecular gas. However, most examples of outflows in different phases also trace different spatial scales in disjoint samples of galaxies. The next step to understanding how AGN feedback affects its host galaxy (and does or does not limit star formation) will come from spatially-matched high resolution observations of nearby AGN that trace the ISM in its different phases. Today’s newest and upcoming facilities are poised to provide this comparison, and will provide key constraints on the physical prescriptions used in galaxy evolution simulations.
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