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Dr. Philip Kaaret
Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
 Philip Kaaret is an Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory and a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics. Kaaret received a B.S. in Physics in 1984
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in
experimental particle physics from Princeton University in 1989. He
was subsequently on the faculty of the Physics Department at Columbia
University in New York City before coming to SAO in 1998.
Kaaret's main interest is understanding the intense gravitational
fields surrounding black holes and neutron stars made luminous by
accreting gas from a companion star. He conducts observations at
X-ray, optical, and radio wavelengths of objects in our Milky Way
galaxy and in nearby galaxies such as the Andromeda galaxy and the
starburst galaxy M82. His current work concerns the highly luminous
X-ray sources in nearby galaxies which have been interpreted as being
intermediate mass black holes, jet ejection from black holes, and the
study of black hole populations to probe the star formation history
of galaxies.
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