"Quasar-driven winds in galaxy formation"

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; } Quasars are now thought to have made critical impact on galaxy formation. Feedback from accretion onto supermassive black holes is frequently implicated in establishing the black hole mass vs galaxy bulge correlations and in limiting the maximal mass of galaxies. In this talk, I will review the indirect evidence for quasar feedback as required by galaxy formation models. I will then review the recent progress on detecting direct evidence for quasar-driven outflows and other types of feedback through multi-wavelength observations. These data may provide direct observational evidence for one of the long-standing paradigms in galaxy formation.