This will be the third observing run for the Advanced LIGO program, and the first run since the LIGO detectors were shut down in August 2017 for major upgrades. LIGO’s detectors in Hanford ...

But thanks to a fascinating new technique implementing squeezed quantum states, LIGO has just reached unprecedented sensitivities. Here's the story. The way that gravitational wave detectors like ...

WASHINGTON — Gravitational wave detectors are going quantum. A planned revamp of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGO, relies on finessing quantum techniques ...

To do that, Advanced LIGO has a completely revamped ... Together, the twin LIGO detectors can only localize a gravitational wave source to a patch of sky that’s many hundreds of square degrees.

These findings suggest that LIGO has a greater chance of detecting dark matter than various other approaches. Moreover, as detectors more advanced than LIGO are developed, scientists will be able ...

The first ever direct detection of gravitational waves has been made by researchers working on the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) in the US. The breakthrough – ...

LIGO has transitioned into a second-generation gravitational-wave detector, known as Advanced LIGO, that consists of two identical interferometers. Beginning operations in September 2015 ...

But it hasn’t yet confirmed the signature of a… Read More The science teams for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, and Europe’s Virgo detector today laid out ...

and is funded by the NSF with contributions to the Advanced LIGO detectors from Germany (Max Planck Society), the U.K. (Science and Technology Facilities Council), and Australia (Australian ...

Advanced LIGO — a major upgrade to the sensitivity of the instruments compared to the first generation LIGO detectors — began scientific operations in September 2015. Funded in large part by ...

With detectors in Washington State and Louisiana, LIGO has recently completed a major upgrade. In the coming years, the Advanced LIGO instruments are expected to make gravitational wave detections ...

The fact that Advanced LIGO made a detection so soon after getting to work suggests that the system will spot more gravitational waves in the near future, team members said. "We ought to see some ...