Abstract: Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) play key roles in galaxy and cluster
evolution.  This is most clearly seen in the "fossil record" that is
imprinted in the gas rich atmospheres of early type galaxies, groups,
and clusters by powerful SMBH outbursts.  I will discuss the outburst
history of M87 as chronicled in its radio and X-ray images and the
implications of these outbursts for heating gas rich environments. In
addition to discussing the outburst around M87, I will review the
results of a galaxy survey that shows the effects of SMBH feedback on
early type galaxies and which suggests that, at very early epochs,
SMBH outbursts have truncated star formation and altered the "normal"
evolution of the stellar component of galaxy bulges.  I conclude by
describing a future X-ray mission, X-ray Surveyor, with sub-arcsecond angular
resolution, that would allow us to study the evolution of SMBHs and
hot, X-ray emitting atmospheres from high redshifts to the
present.