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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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

While the LIGO detections involved ... “Nature has provided us with an observatory on a galactic scale,” says Joey Key, an astrophysicist at the University of Washington Bothell, who was ...