LIGO Hanford engineers swap out a fiber cable in a vacuum squeezer during the October 2019 commissioning break at the ...

Mumbai: In an international effort to unlock the secrets of the universe, Indian scientists have been using the country’s ...

As gravitational wave detectors become more advanced, tracing their principles and history can engage undergraduate students with modern physics.

The discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration in 2015 confirmed a century-old prediction of Einstein and opened a completely new window on the Universe. While particle ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

So far, HAYSTAC is one of the two experiments worldwide, along with the larger research effort Advanced LIGO, which relied on quantum squeezing ... quantum technology-inspired ideas to improve the ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this information like a cosmic DNA test.

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 ...

With the detectors’ increased sensitivity ... which conceived and built the project. Financial support for the Advanced LIGO project was led by NSF with Germany (Max Planck Society), the U.K. (Science ...