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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
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.
What are gravitational waves? Why are we looking for them? LIGO's Impact Public Alerts

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LIGO Ready to Explore Secrets of the Universe

News Release • May 24, 2023

Today, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration begins a new observing run with upgraded instruments and other improvements to boost the search for gravitational waves

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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

LIGO Exploration Center opens at Hanford, Washington

News Release • June 8, 2022

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