LIGO Laboratory is poised to open an entirely new window on the universe by detecting gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars with its newly updated instrumentation. The name LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory — the world’s largest and most precise measuring instrument ever conceived and built. With twin interferometers in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington, nearly 1000 scientists around the world come together to explore this new frontier with the goal of proving Einstein’s predictions of Space-Time.