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    India Approves Construction of Its Own LIGO

    Feature Story • April 17, 2023

    LIGO-India will greatly improve the localization of sources of gravitational waves

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    Welcome to LIGO Livingston

    • December 15, 2022

    LIGO Livingston is located in Livingston Louisiana, in a vast, humid, loblolly pine forest.  Home to one of LIGO's two gravitational wave detectors, our facility operates in tandem with LIGO Hanford to listen for the faint whispers of gravitational waves from the most energetic events in the universe.  LIGO Livingston is also home to LIGO's Science Education Center, which hosts schools, teacher workshops, tours and monthly Science Saturdays - where the public is invited to explore the science and engineering that underpin our quest to study the universe via gravitational waves.

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    LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Finds Elusive Mergers of Black Holes with Neutron Stars

    News Release • June 29, 2021

    LVK scientists capture two NSBH merger events 10 days apart in January 2020.

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    A “bang” in LIGO and Virgo detectors signals most massive gravitational-wave source yet

    News Release • September 2, 2020

    GW190521, a binary black hole merger likely produced gravitational waves equal to the energy of eight suns.

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LIGO Congratulates Pulsar Timing Array Teams for New Gravitational Wave Discovery

News Release • June 28, 2023

International teams announce discovery of nanoHertz gravitational waves permeating the Universe

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LIGO Ready to Explore Secrets of the Universe

News Release • May 24, 2023

LIGO and its Partners Fast Approaching Next Observing Run

News Release • May 16, 2023

Can Cosmic Collisions Be Predicted Before They Happen?

News Release • March 10, 2023

Latest Update on Start of Next Observing Run (O4)

News Release • January 21, 2023

Winner of the 2022 Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration Announced

News Release • November 21, 2022

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