Why Do Black Holes Form? Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is squeezed into a very small space. Cram enough ...

In February 2016 scientists at the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites in the US first detected the phenomenon predicted by Einstein, with the signals corresponding to ...

The new adaptive optical devices are designed to deliver ring-like targeted heating patterns to the surface of the 34-cm-diameter core optics in LIGO to control the effect of increasing thermal ...

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