Some three billion years ago, when Earth was a sprightly ocean world dotted with protocontinents and inhabited solely by single-celled organisms, a pair of black holes spiraled together and collided ...

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The order has been awarded by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The observatory will be built at Aundha in Maharashtra’s ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, has already won its researchers a Nobel Prize — and now artificial intelligence… Read More After three years of upgrading and waiting, ...

Squeezed state-of-the-art: LIGO team members install equipment as part of the squeezed-light upgrade. (Courtesy: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Matt Heintze) Quantum squeezing has been used to increase the ...

The LIGO Livingston observatory is located on LSU property, and LSU faculty, students and research staff are major contributors to the collaboration, which develops detector technology and analyzes ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding Caltech and MIT $20.4 million to upgrade the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) into the Advanced LIGO Plus. Advanced LIGO ...

After a whirlwind tour of press conferences, parties and awards following their Feb. 11 announcement of the world’s first direct detection of gravitational waves, the team of scientists at the Laser ...

The LIGO set-up consists of three interferometers in two separate locations — 4-km-long interferometers located in Hanford, Washington State and Livingston, Louisiana (see Fig. 1 inset) and a ...