supermassive black hole - What is the galaxy M87 doing these days?

The answer to your question is relatively straightforward: Not much. I'll delve into it in two parts: Star formation and the activity of the supermassive black hole at the center.

Star Formation

M87 is, according to Wikipedia, home to many Population II stars. They have little hydrogen and helium in them, and the clouds of gas and dust in the galaxy don't have much, either. In fact, many dust clouds can be destroyed by the intense radiation emitted by the accretion disk of the central black hole. This combines to make it seem unlikely that there will be much star formation in the galaxy.

That said, just because a galaxy doesn't have a lot of materials for star formation doesn't mean it can't form lots of new stars - at least, no under certain special circumstances. Galaxy collisions can induce high rates of star formation - starburst galaxies are good examples of this. While M87 might not be at a high risk for a collision, there is still the possibility of one. M84 is nearby, and may have had an encounter with M87 in the past. While it is a long shot (and M84 has a low star-forming rate), an interaction with the two could spawn new stars.

The Black Hole

You seemed particularly interested in the black hole at M87's center. It is a supermassive black hole, with a mass billions of times that of the Sun. Quite a monster, by all standards. Yet it is not doomed to swallow the galaxy whole anytime soon. It is sucking in gas and dust at a rate of 0.1 solar masses each year - and there is over 70,000 solar masses of dust in the galaxy. You would think that, therefore, the dust should be gone in 700,000 years, right? Well, the dust isn't all concentrated at the center, near the black hole. It is spread throughout the galaxy, and it would take a long time for all of it to reach the black hole - let alone the billions upon billions of stars in the galaxy.

In summary: Star formation in M87 is at a low rate, and while a galactic interaction could create a new wave of star formation, it is unlikely. The central black hole is sucking in lots of gas and dust, but it will take billions upon billions of years before it eats up a substantial amount of matter.

I hope this helps.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_84

http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0202238v3.pdf (Beware: Wikipedia cites the paper by saying that one solar mass is absorbed every ten years, while the paper says that 0.1 solar masses are absorbed each year.)