LIGO Lab | Caltech | MIT
Oct 24, 2025 · 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 …
What is LIGO? | LIGO Lab | Caltech
Wholly supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, LIGO is the world's largest gravitational wave observatory and a marvel of precision engineering. Comprising two enormous laser …
About | LIGO Lab | Caltech
The U.S. National Science Foundation Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (NSF LIGO), was designed to open the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics through the direct detection …
LIGO | Hanford
Oct 24, 2025 · 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 …
LIGO | Livingston
Oct 24, 2025 · 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 …
What are Gravitational Waves? | LIGO Lab | Caltech
All of this changed on September 14, 2015 when U.S. National Science Foundation Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (NSF LIGO) physically sensed the undulations in spacetime caused …
News | LIGO Lab | Caltech
Nov 25, 2025 · 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 …
Facts | LIGO Lab | Caltech
As technology itself evolves, so too does LIGO, and with each step in its evolution over time, LIGO's instruments and others like it around the world have opened the field of gravitational wave astronomy.
LIGO - A Gravitational-Wave Observatory | LIGO Lab | Caltech
Aerial views of the LIGO Livingston (top left) and Hanford (bottom left) observatories. At right, 90 gravitational wave events are depicted in this chart, arranged by their date of detection between …
Learn More | LIGO Lab | Caltech
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, …