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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.
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.
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.
LIGO-Virgo Finds Mystery Object in "Mass Gap"

News Release • June 23, 2020

LIGO and Virgo report the observation of a merger involving a black hole of 23 solar masses and a compact object of 2.6 solar masses, detected during LIGO’s and Virgo’s 3rd observing run on August 14, 2019. The merger resulted in a final black hole of about 25 solar masses, located about 800 million light-years from Earth.
What are gravitational waves? Why are we looking for them? LIGO's Impact Public Alerts

News

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Latest Update on Start of Next Observing Run (O4)

News Release • January 21, 2023

LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA plan for March 2023 commencement of next observing run (O4)

Headlines

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

News Release • November 21, 2022

LIGO Exploration Center opens at Hanford, Washington

News Release • June 8, 2022

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Webinar to Discuss Observational Results

News Release • March 21, 2022

LIGO Laboratory's Statement on the War in Ukraine

News Release • March 14, 2022

LIGO-Virgo-Kagra Webinar to Discuss Observational Results

News Release • February 17, 2022

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Physical/shipping address:
19100 LIGO Lane
Livingston, LA 70754

Postal address:
PO Box 940
Livingston, LA 70754

Tours: Kathy Holt
tel (225) 686-3193

Information: (225) 686-3100

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