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LIGO: Third Detection of Gravitational Waves

On Thursday, The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that it has detected gravitational waves for third time. These waves were created with merging of two black holes about three billion light years away, and were detected by LIGO in the US on January 4, 2017. The latest detection of gravitational waves has been named […]

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Scientists at LIGO Say They Detected Gravitational Waves for the Second Time in December Last Year

Scientists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Observatory (LIGO) have announced that they detected gravitational waves for the second time – on December 25th last year. Earlier in February, LIGO scientists had announced first detection of a large space-time ripple at LIGO labs in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. This ripple was detected on […]