Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

And LIGO’s second gravitational wave event, GW151226, is great for both! Essentially, on the pessimist’s side, GW151226 makes it all-but-certain that LIGO is picking up genuine gravitational ...

Astrophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

There are two LIGO detectors. One is in Louisiana (only 30 minutes from where I live) and the other is in Washington. Other gravitational wave detectors exist on Earth, but they were not ...

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

In March 2023, the gravitational wave detector LIGO will resume operations with increased sensitivity as it searches for the ripples in space-time triggered by violent events such as black hole ...

May 24 marked the start of O4, the latest gravitational-wave hunting effort of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. But only LIGO is fully operational right now.

LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatory Getting $30 Million Upgrade. The observatory is capable of detecting tiny vibrations in the fabric of space-time, and a new upgrade will expand its range sevenfold.

LIGO, a state-of-the-art gravitational wave detector, is finally up and operational again after a three year hiatus.

Within three weeks, it spotted its first gravitational wave event. A new era. Entire books could be written about all the steps that LIGO takes to limit the noise that is a constant feature of its ...