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

Previously it could only detect collisions once a week or so. Aerial shot of the advanced LIGO gravitational detector in Livingston, Louisiana. Image source: Picturellarious The LIGO detectors in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Commissioning the detectors has gone extremely well thus far, and we are looking forward to our first science run with Advanced LIGO beginning later in 2015. This is a very exciting time for the ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 – ...