CAMPBELL, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 14, 2016) - Nexsan™, a global leader in unified storage solutions, today announced that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Caltech ...

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ability to measure motions more than 10,000 times smaller than the width of a ...

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has deployed new tape libraries and drives to better support the data archiving needs of its Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to ...

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three key players in the development and ultimate success of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). One half of the prize ...

Gravitational wave sightings are now a weekly occurrence. It took decades of work to find the first set of ripples in spacetime, detected in 2015 (SN: 3/5/16, p. 6). But now, just a month after ...

A specialist checks the alignment of a test beam at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. (National Science Foundation Photo) After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part ...

A worldwide team of physicists led by Caltech announced Thursday they have found ripples created by two black holes colliding more than a billion light years away, a discovery that further enforces ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a ...

An international team of scientists today announced what could be the biggest breakthrough in physics in a hundred years. Specifically, they claim to have at last detected gravitational waves, the ...