The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, is one of the most powerful scientific equipment for detecting gravitational waves. Covering an area of 16 square kilometers ...

In February 2016 scientists at the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites in the US first detected the phenomenon predicted by Einstein, with the signals corresponding to ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a huge installation measured in kilometers that is listening for wrinkles in space-time. Pulling this off is a true story of ...

Since 2015, observatories like LIGO have opened a new window ... by the quantum properties of the laser light itself that we use in the interferometer to bounce off mirrors. The instrument we ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists from the international Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration just announced that they've recorded gravitational waves ...