New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories

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New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories

The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes.

New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consists of two widely separated installations within the United States — one in Hanford Washington and the other in Livingston, Louisiana — operated in unison as a single observatory. LIGO is operated by the LIGO Laboratory, a consortium of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Funded by the National Science Foundation, LIGO is an international resource for both physics and astrophysics.

LIGO Lab | Caltech (www.ligo.caltech.edu)

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