August 17, 2018
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This ‘timelapse’ video created by “GROWTH’, shows the locations and times of observations of all the observatories around the world that looked at the EM counterpart of GW170817 following its detection on Aug 17, 2017. Credit: Pavan Hebbar, Varun Bhale...

April 3, 2018
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Kai Staats' documentary about LIGO's historic detection.

February 22, 2018
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This video talks about GW170817 - the first gravitational waves detected from neutron star collisions.

October 16, 2017
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Animation of binary neutron star merger

October 16, 2017
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How LIGO, Virgo and a variety of telescopes zoomed in on the location for the source of FW170817.

October 16, 2017
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The story of neutron stars combining and GW170817.

October 16, 2017
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Animation of binary neutron star merger.

October 16, 2017
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Animation showing what is emitted from a neutron star binary.

October 16, 2017
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A comparison of Gravitational waves.

October 16, 2017
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Animation of binary neutron star merger

October 16, 2017
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LIGO and Virgo's 1st detection of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars (Press Conference and Online Q&A Session)

October 16, 2017
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Try listening for the nearly hidden gravitational wave in LIGO's data.

October 3, 2017
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The announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

September 28, 2017
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A joint LIGO-Virgo press conference on GW170814

September 27, 2017
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Animation of GW170814

August 9, 2017
LIGO Lab • Education Video
A film by Les Guthman about the new age of gravitational wave astronomy.

June 1, 2017
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A mathematical simulation of the warped space-time near two merging black holes, consistent with LIGO's observation of the event dubbed GW170104.

June 1, 2017
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Simulation of the binary black-hole coalescence GW170104

February 16, 2017
LIGO Lab • Education Video
A film by Les Guthman on the suspension system holding up LIGO's mirrors.

September 27, 2016
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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.

September 27, 2016
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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

February 15, 2016
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This video narrative tells the story of the history and legacy of LIGO from the genesis of the idea to the detection in September 2015.

February 15, 2016
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On September 14, 2015, LIGO observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime. This video narrative tells the story of the science behind that important detection.

February 11, 2016
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LIGO scientist David Reitze takes us on a 1.3 billion year journey that begins with the violent merger of two black holes in the distant universe. The event produced gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space and time, which LIGO detected...

November 18, 2015
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Clip from "Einstein's Messengers" illustrating how LIGO's interferometers will respond to a gravitational wave.