Interaction between the warm gas, the ICM, and the radio source in A496. (a) MUSE image of the Hα line intensity, with overlaid white contours. (b) Chandra unsharp masked image of A496, obtained by subtracting a 10″σ smoothed image from a 2″σ smoothed one. Green contours are from the VLITE at 340 MHz at levels of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128 mJy/beam, while black contours are from panel (a). Dashed cyan ellipses show the positions of the cavities excavated by the inner lobes (see Sect. 6).