On Dec. 26, 2015, the two identical instruments that make up the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) -- located in Washington and Louisiana -- recorded the signal from the ...

LIGO has two widely-separated 4-km-long interferometers—in Hanford, Washington ... Anamaria Effler of the LIGO Livingston Observatory; and Barry Barish, a UCR distinguished professor in physics ...

Machine learning tool will help answer fundamental questions about the universe. A new AI-driven tool allows scientists to ...

A team of physicists, led by Jonathan Richardson from the University of California, Riverside, has made a breakthrough in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is made up of two complexes in the United States. Separated by thousands of miles, each one is 5 ...

LIGO has two widely-separated 4-km-long interferometers -- in Hanford, Washington ... Anamaria Effler of the LIGO Livingston Observatory; and Barry Barish, a UCR distinguished professor in ...

A new adaptive optics technology is set to transform gravitational-wave detection, allowing LIGO and future observatories like Cosmic Explorer to reach new heights. By correcting mirror distortions, ...

An observatory in Japan is joining three ... In the late 1990s, LIGO's machines in Washington and Louisiana were built as an attempt to pick up the signals Einstein thought we'd never detect.

One of these interferometers is in inland Washington State ... U.S. concept for a next-generation gravitational-wave observatory, after LIGO. It will be 10 times the size of LIGO, so that's ...

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