This $78,482.98 grant for research was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University, a private research university located in Stanford, California. The purpose of the grant is to conduct a deep 380 kilosecond observation using the XMM-Newton/Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) to investigate the dynamical state of the gas in the inner few kiloparsecs of the elliptical galaxy M84 and determine whether it is largely quiescent and in a state of heating-cooling imbalance. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, as Stanford University is a large, established research institution competing for federal work on full and open terms. This research grant is part of Stanford's broader portfolio of federal contract and grant awards, which includes work for the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and National Institutes of Health in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, renewable energy, and precision medicine.