As LIGO's sensitivity becomes better and better, and as more detectors come online, our capabilities allow us to detect more of these waves, and the cataclysmic events that generate them, ...

This means LIGO would be able to detect gravitational waves even from merging neutron stars that are about 4 megaparsecs ...

Since then, LIGO has detected hundreds of events, including black holes merging and neutron stars colliding. The Hanford site continues to refine its tools and push science forward.

LIGO detected the first-ever confirmed gravitational waves in 2016. Around the same time, its operators were thinking about ways to weed out the quantum disturbances.

Trump administration proposes closing LIGO Hanford or LIGO Livingston, jeopardizing cutting-edge gravitational wave research near Tri-Cities, Washington.

LIGO Executive Director David Reitze, who oversees both observatories and is based at the California Institute of Technology, said in an email that LIGO is preparing for a 39.6% budget reduction ...

LIGO researchers are particularly excited for the new upgrade, however, because this pushes the instrument beyond what is called the "quantum limit" — a first for a gravitational wave detector.

LIGO researchers at MIT, Caltech, and elsewhere report a significant advance in quantum squeezing, which allows them to measure undulations in space-time across the entire range of gravitational ...

The LIGO detectors in the states were meant to be joined by a third, the Virgo detector, which is located near Pisa, Italy. However, that detector wasn’t ready to go operational, ...

Cities, the Vera C. Rubin and LIGO observatories reveal cosmic secrets, one capturing light and the other listening for the ...

LIGO is a U.S. science megaproject built to detect ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves. The ones we can detect are largely created by the mergers of black holes and neutron stars.