Latest Images
Latest Images
LIGO Vacuum System Controls
October 19, 2016
LIGO Lab •
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Mapping LIGO’s Detections During Fi...
June 15, 2016
LIGO Lab • Collage
A 3-D projection of the Milky Way onto a transparent globe showing probable locations of all three LIGO events detected during the first obser...
LIGO Lab • Collage
A 3-D projection of the Milky Way onto a transparent globe showing probable locations of all three LIGO events detected during the first obser...
Mapping LIGO’s New Detection on the...
June 15, 2016
LIGO Lab • Collage
The approximate location of the gravitational-wave event detected on December 26, 2015 by LIGO is shown on this sky map of the southern hemisp...
LIGO Lab • Collage
The approximate location of the gravitational-wave event detected on December 26, 2015 by LIGO is shown on this sky map of the southern hemisp...
Mapping LIGO Detections on the Sky
June 15, 2016
LIGO Lab • Collage
The approximate locations of the two gravitational-wave events detected so far by LIGO are shown on this sky map of the southern hemisphere.
LIGO Lab • Collage
The approximate locations of the two gravitational-wave events detected so far by LIGO are shown on this sky map of the southern hemisphere.
Spiral Dance of Black Holes
June 15, 2016
LIGO Lab • Artwork
An illustration showing the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each ot...
LIGO Lab • Artwork
An illustration showing the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each ot...
Black Holes with Known Masses
June 15, 2016
LIGO Lab • Chart
An image showing black holes with known masses.
LIGO Lab • Chart
An image showing black holes with known masses.
LIGO's First Observing Run
June 15, 2016
LIGO Lab • Chart
This illustration shows the dates for two confirmed gravitational-wave detections by LIGO; and one candidate detection, which was too weak to ...
LIGO Lab • Chart
This illustration shows the dates for two confirmed gravitational-wave detections by LIGO; and one candidate detection, which was too weak to ...
Massive Bodies Warp Space-Time
February 11, 2016
LIGO Lab • Artwork
How our sun and Earth warp space and time, or spacetime, is represented here with a green grid. As Albert Einstein demonstrated in his theory ...
LIGO Lab • Artwork
How our sun and Earth warp space and time, or spacetime, is represented here with a green grid. As Albert Einstein demonstrated in his theory ...
Two Black Holes Merge into One
February 11, 2016
LIGO Lab • Simulation
The collision of two black holes holes—a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitationa...
LIGO Lab • Simulation
The collision of two black holes holes—a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitationa...
Latest Videos
Latest Videos
Mirrors that hang on glass threads
February 16, 2017
LIGO Lab • Education Video
A film by Les Guthman on the suspension system holding up LIGO's mirrors.
LIGO Lab • Education Video
A film by Les Guthman on the suspension system holding up LIGO's mirrors.
Mike Landry TedxYYC
September 27, 2016
Education Video
Physicist Michael Landry describes LIGO's first direct detections of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, discoveries that have opened an entirely new field of astronomy, effectively allowing us to listen to the universe.
Education Video
Physicist Michael Landry describes LIGO's first direct detections of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, discoveries that have opened an entirely new field of astronomy, effectively allowing us to listen to the universe.
LIGO Scientists Speak at the 2016 World Science Festival
September 27, 2016
Education Video
Physicist and author, Brian Greene, interviews a panel of LIGO research scientists during a public lecture at the World Science Festival held in New York City on June 23, 2016
Education Video
Physicist and author, Brian Greene, interviews a panel of LIGO research scientists during a public lecture at the World Science Festival held in New York City on June 23, 2016
