News | LIGO Lab | Caltech
Oct 16, 2024 · Feature Story • October 23, 2023. New technology in operation at LIGO is tackling quantum mechanical noise, enabling LIGO to probe a larger volume of the Universe and greatly boost the observatory's ability to study the exotic events that shake space and time. Learn More.
LIGO Lab | Caltech | MIT
Apr 17, 2023 · LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit. Feature Story • October 23, 2023. New technology in operation at LIGO is tackling quantum mechanical noise, enabling LIGO to probe a larger volume of the Universe and greatly boost the observatory's ability to study the exotic events that shake space and time.
News | LIGO and Virgo Announce New Detections in Updated …
Oct 28, 2020 · In the meantime, the LIGO and Virgo instruments are undergoing upgrades to prepare for the fourth observing run (planned to begin in mid-2022), which will also include the KAGRA detector in Japan. More exciting discoveries are on the horizon!
News | LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Finds Elusive Mergers of Black Holes …
Jun 29, 2021 · LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Finds Elusive Mergers of Black Holes with Neutron Stars News Release • June 29, 2021 For the first time, researchers have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star.
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA to Resume O4 After Mid-Run Break
Apr 3, 2024 · The LIGO and Virgo detectors will resume their joint observing campaign next week, aiming to detect more than 200 gravitational-wave events by the end of the fourth observing run (O4). Astronomers also eagerly hope for the observation of new multi-messenger events, which involve the simultaneous detection of gravitational and electromagnetic waves.
LIGO | Hanford - California Institute of Technology
News Release • June 28, 2023. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consists of two widely separated installations within the United States — one in Hanford Washington and the other in Livingston, Louisiana — operated in unison as a single observatory.
News | LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration Detected a …
Apr 5, 2024 · Just five days after the launch of O4, things got really exciting. On May 29, 2023, the gravitational-wave signal GW230529 passed by the LIGO Livingston detector. Within minutes, the data from the detector was analyzed and an alert (designated S230529ay) was released publicly announcing the signal.
News | LIGO Ready to Explore Secrets of the Universe - Caltech
May 24, 2023 · Today, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration begins a new observing run with upgraded instruments and other improvements to boost the search for gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, generated by colliding black holes and other extreme cosmic events.
News | LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit | LIGO Lab | Caltech
Oct 23, 2023 · New technology in operation at LIGO is tackling quantum mechanical noise, enabling LIGO to probe a larger volume of the Universe and greatly boost the observatory's ability to study the exotic events that shake space and time.
News | Latest Update on Start of Next Observing Run (O4) | LIGO …
Jan 21, 2023 · After over two years of upgrades, maintenance work, and construction of a new 'squeezer cavity' at LLO and LHO, LIGO is projecting that its next observing run, O4 (the fourth since the Advanced LIGO instrument came online in 2015) will begin in May 2023.