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LIGO And Virgo Resume Search for Ripples in Space And Time

The National Science Foundation’s LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is set to resume its hunt for gravitational waves — ripples in space and time — on April 1, after receiving ...
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Protect LIGO’s science and local impact from Trump’s budget cuts | Opinion

Installation of in-vacuum equipment as a part of the squeezed-light upgrade before Advanced LIGO’s third observing run. LIGO team members install in-vacuum equipment that is part of the squeezed-light ...
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Confirmed! Black hole merger finally shows Stephen Hawking was right after more than 50 years of debate

Scientists have used a gravitational wave detector to "hear" two black holes getting bigger as they merged into a single, gigantic entity. The detection, made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational ...
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Ten years later, LIGO is a black-hole hunting machine

This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat for GW250114, a powerful collision between two black holes observed in gravitational waves by the US National Science Foundation LIGO. It depicts the ...

After 10 years of gravitational wave astronomy, what will be the next new eye on the cosmos?

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...
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LIGO Could Detect Gravitational Waves From An Alien Spacecraft, But There's A Catch

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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From Sea Lanes to Space-Time: How Future Physics Could Redefine Global Power

Space power is central to communication, navigation, and surveillance. China’s “Space Silk Road” envisions orbital highways of satellites as critical to global influence, much as maritime routes once ...
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Exploring UWM's role in the discovery of gravitational waves 10 years ago

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.
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More accolades arrive as LIGO scientists resume search for ripples in space-time

As scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory resume their search for ripples in the fabric of space-time, the awards for their discoveries continue to stack up. On Monday, ...

Scientists Think This Mysterious Signal May Have Come Through a Wormhole

A strange chirp detected by LIGO in 2019 has some scientists searching for answers beyond a simple black hole merger.

Expanded black hole collision catalog features nearly 4,000 detailed simulations

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic ...

Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos

In a preprint titled “Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?,” Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the ...