News | LIGO Lab | Caltech
Oct 16, 2024 · Feature Story • October 23, 2023. New technology in operation at LIGO is tackling quantum mechanical noise, enabling LIGO to probe a larger volume of the Universe and greatly boost the observatory's ability to study the exotic events that shake space and time. Learn More.
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA to Resume O4 After Mid-Run Break
Apr 3, 2024 · The LIGO and Virgo detectors will resume their joint observing campaign next week, aiming to detect more than 200 gravitational-wave events by the end of the fourth observing run (O4). Astronomers also eagerly hope for the observation of new multi-messenger events, which involve the simultaneous detection of gravitational and electromagnetic waves.
LIGO Lab | Caltech | MIT
Apr 17, 2023 · LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit. Feature Story • October 23, 2023. New technology in operation at LIGO is tackling quantum mechanical noise, enabling LIGO to probe a larger volume of the Universe and greatly boost the observatory's ability to study the exotic events that shake space and time.
News | LIGO and Virgo Announce New Detections in Updated …
Oct 28, 2020 · In the meantime, the LIGO and Virgo instruments are undergoing upgrades to prepare for the fourth observing run (planned to begin in mid-2022), which will also include the KAGRA detector in Japan. More exciting discoveries are on the horizon!
LIGO | Hanford - California Institute of Technology
News Release • June 28, 2023. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consists of two widely separated installations within the United States — one in Hanford Washington and the other in Livingston, Louisiana — operated in unison as a single observatory.
News | Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's ...
Feb 11, 2016 · For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos.
News | LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Finds Elusive Mergers of Black Holes …
Jun 29, 2021 · LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Finds Elusive Mergers of Black Holes with Neutron Stars News Release • June 29, 2021 For the first time, researchers have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star.
News | LIGO Ready to Explore Secrets of the Universe - Caltech
May 24, 2023 · Today, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration begins a new observing run with upgraded instruments and other improvements to boost the search for gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, generated by colliding black holes and other extreme cosmic events.
News | LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration Detected a …
Apr 5, 2024 · Just five days after the launch of O4, things got really exciting. On May 29, 2023, the gravitational-wave signal GW230529 passed by the LIGO Livingston detector. Within minutes, the data from the detector was analyzed and an alert (designated S230529ay) was released publicly announcing the signal.
News | LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit | LIGO Lab | Caltech
Oct 23, 2023 · New technology in operation at LIGO is tackling quantum mechanical noise, enabling LIGO to probe a larger volume of the Universe and greatly boost the observatory's ability to study the exotic events that shake space and time.