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 ...

The “National Science Foundation FY 2026 Budget Request to Congress” calls the LIGO system “the most sensitive detector of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Courtesy LIGO Laboratory The most recent improvements were made with the goal of improved detection and more advanced data analysis methods to allow scientists to extract more information from ...