LIGO first captured hints of these black hole ... so by studying the ways they interact with gravity, they can piece together a little more about how these mysterious objects -- and others like ...

The force of gravity is transmitted through spacetime at the speed of light, which creates wavefronts we can detect with special equipment like the LIGO gravitational wave detectors. In classical ...

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 ...

Each LIGO detector is shaped like an "L" with both ... She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight and watched rockets launch to space from places around the United States.

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