LIGO-India: An Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detector

In April 2023, the Union Cabinet has approved a project to build an advanced gravitational-wave detector in Maharashtra.

  • LIGO-India will be the third of its kind, made to the exact specifications of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGO) in Louisiana and Washington in the U.S.
  • It is expected to be completed by 2030.
  • It will work in tandem with the LIGO observatories in the U.S.
  • The facility will enable the global network of LIGO gravitational wave detectors to study gravitational waves emitted by very massive objects in the universe in extreme environments.
  • The project is collaboration between a consortium of Indian research institutions and ....
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