16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
In a ground-breaking announcement, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Advanced Virgo Interferometer have once again detected gravitational waves, but this time, not from merging black holes. In a far away...
08 November 2021
Latest gravitational wave catalogue details 35 new detections
...using the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Louisiana and Washington state... to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves." Since then, both LIGO and the Advanced Virgo detector ...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... in the Kepler 90 system, making it the only other known system to contain eight planets like our own. LIGO’s continued discoveries included the first detection of a neutron star merger and scientists surmise that our Universe...
