02 June 2017
A third success for LIGO as more gravitational waves detected
...and is somewhere in the middle of the first two. With LIGO's first discovery, the two black holes in question were about ... from their source to Earth and true to Einsteins prediction, LIGO did not find evidence for this effect in this latest detection...
29 September 2017
Virgo and LIGO detect fourth gravitational wave signal
...long (compared with two, 4 km long arms for the LIGO interferometers) and both are L-shaped (though not all interferometers are...between the Virgo Gravitational-Wave Observatory and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the first time a gravitational-wave...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... strain to be about 1/10,000th the width of a proton. Current operating facilities in the global network include the twin LIGO detectors - in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, - and GEO600 in Germany. The Virgo detector in Italy and the...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
... (130 million light years) to be more precise – LIGO and Virgo have detected signals from the merger of two ... to approximately 1.99 × 1030 kilograms). This recent event captured by LIGO and Virgo, known as GW170817, is not only significant because ...
04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
...,” said co-author Bruce Gossan of the University of California at Berkeley. “What an exciting time to be alive, to see instruments like LIGO and Chandra showing us so many thrilling things nature has to offer.” Purple material from the GW170817 event...
08 November 2021
Latest gravitational wave catalogue details 35 new detections
... ever found. As of 7 November, when the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration released the results of events observed between.... With observing run number three now complete, the LIGO and Virgo observatories are currently undergoing improvement works before ...
