LIGO’s 20-month observation run 04 will officially start on May 24, and it will later be joined by Virgo and a new Japanese observatory—the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector, or KAGRA.

But since then, LIGO, and its partner gravitational wave detector Virgo, have detected signals from far more merging black hole pairs, colliding neutron stars, and mixed mergers between the two.

The LIGO detector in Hanford, Wash., uses lasers to measure the minuscule stretching of space caused by a gravitational wave. Image Credit: LIGO Laboratory LIGO is comprised of two separate ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which has two massive detectors in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, is now restarting with improved sensitivity after ...

LIGO’s 20-month observation run 04 will officially start on May 24, and it will later be joined by Virgo and a new Japanese observatory – the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector, or KAGRA.

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

The achievement only made the direct detection of gravitational ... and technological marvels that make up LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) were deployed in Livingston ...

in collaboration with the team of LIGO ("Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory"), who built those detectors successfully, has designed an AI-based algorithm called "Urania" to design ...

Jackie explains that a laser inside the tubes is split, bounces off mirrors, and goes straight back to sensors at the center ...

While current gravitational wave detectors — such as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its sister site Virgo — have proven very successful, a new study argues ...