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Much to their surprise, scientists are finding dozens of black holes deep within densely packed collections of stars called globular clusters. This happened when a wave-hunting experiment called LIGO, ...
After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S. have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe. Unlike light ...
When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Getty Images After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S.
On September 14th, 2015, less than 72 hours after it began operation at it's current sensitivity, an incredible event unfolded at each of the twin LIGO detectors in Washington and Louisiana: an event ...
After a year of downtime to perform hardware upgrades, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is ready for action and will turn on its twin detectors, one in Washington state ...
New mirror coatings will increase the volume of space LIGO can probe in its next run. Since LIGO's groundbreaking detection, in 2015, of gravitational waves produced by a pair of colliding black holes ...
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