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Tagged: LIGO

  • 10 years ago we first saw gravitational waves — what we’ve seen since

    Listen at CBC News

    September 12, 2025

  • Ten years later, LIGO is a black-hole hunting machine

    Read it at MIT News

    September 10, 2025

  • Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.

    Read it at the New York Times

    September 10, 2025

  • Rainer Weiss obituary: Nobel laureate who pioneered the technique that detected gravitational waves

    Read it at Nature

    September 08, 2025

  • Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92

    Read it at MIT News

    August 26, 2025

  • The LIGO Lab Is Pushing the Boundaries of Gravitational-Wave Research

    Read it at Scientific American

    July 16, 2025

  • We’ve just doubled the number of gravitational waves we can find

    Read it at New Scientist

    September 19, 2024

  • How scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors

    Read it at MIT Technology Review

    February 29, 2024

  • Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Helped Detect the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn’t Stop There

    Read it at Wired

    December 01, 2023

  • How quantum ‘squeezing’ will help LIGO detect more gravitational waves

    Read it at Science News

    October 26, 2023

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