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Outflows from supermassive blackholes are an important driver of feedback in galaxies with an active black hole. They impact the nearby environment over different physical scales during their lifetime, with varying effects. Such outflows either appear as non-relativistic winds driven by radiation or MHD processes, or relativistic jets powered by Blandford-Znajeck processes. Irrespective of their origin, on large scales, such outflows can act as an important agent of injecting energy in the host's ISM. This has been confirmed both in observations of multi-phase gas, as well as in simulations. Such interactions have the potential to impact the kinematics of the gas as well its star formation. However, to what extent such feedback are efficient in impacting the large scale gas in the galaxy is still a question of debate. In our research group we have been undertaking a multi-faceted approach to understand the impact of such relativistic jets and related phenomenon through a wide ranging campaign of high resolution simulations. The results have been further augmented by spatially resolved observations of multi-phase gas in galaxies with such jets, to corroborate the theoretical findings. I will review the on-going works and future directions of research in this context. |