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As LIGO's sensitivity becomes better and better, and as more detectors come online, our capabilities allow us to detect more of these waves, and the cataclysmic events that generate them, ...
LIGO changed that. Last year, the collaboration announced that its twin detectors had picked up a passing distortion in late 2015 caused by two black holes crashing into each other.
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Interesting Engineering on MSNLIGO to detect gravitational waves from 13 million light-years further with new device - MSNThis means LIGO would be able to detect gravitational waves even from merging neutron stars that are about 4 megaparsecs ...
Since then, LIGO has detected hundreds of events, including black holes merging and neutron stars colliding. The Hanford site continues to refine its tools and push science forward.
For 13 years LIGO heard, it seemed, every vibration but the one it was supposed to. But on September 14, 2015 it detected those black-hole-crashing swells as they washed over the planet.
LIGO detected the first-ever confirmed gravitational waves in 2016. Around the same time, its operators were thinking about ways to weed out the quantum disturbances.
LIGO can only see the most powerful of these—caused by very massive objects undergoing extreme acceleration—and those only within a certain frequency range. Still, it’s worth asking what ...
Trump administration proposes closing LIGO Hanford or LIGO Livingston, jeopardizing cutting-edge gravitational wave research near Tri-Cities, Washington.
Scientists believe if the Trump administration's proposed budget is approved, the Louisiana LIGO could be on the chopping block and "would cripple our scientific mission." ...
LIGO has two outstretched arms (each 4 kilometers long) that cross each other asymmetrically — this is the Michelson Interferometer; This stretching of space causes LIGOs arms to change in ...
Cities, the Vera C. Rubin and LIGO observatories reveal cosmic secrets, one capturing light and the other listening for the ...
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