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Jane Glanzer wins LIGO Lab 2025 Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration (LIGO Caltech)

Public Technologies 25 Nov 2025
For her work, Glanzer will receive a $1,000 prize and present an invited seminar at one of the LIGO Laboratory sites (LIGO-Hanford, LIGO-Livingston, Caltech, or MIT) to share her achievements with LIGO Laboratory members.
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Scientists Solve the Mystery Behind LIGO's "Forbidden" Black Hole Pair

NDTV 23 Nov 2025
When LIGO and Virgo detected GW231123 in late 2023, it appeared to show two black holes merging in the so-called mass gap, where theory predicted none should exist. But new simulations indicate that... .
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LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA Complete Fourth Observing Run (LIGO Caltech)

Public Technologies 18 Nov 2025
RRT members enjoyed sharing the final moments of O4 with others in the control rooms of LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston Observatories (USA), Virgo (Italy), and KAGRA (Japan) ... The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration.
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That Black Hole Merger That ‘Shouldn’t’ Exist’? Scientists Propose a Wild Explanation

Gizmodo 12 Nov 2025
The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought was possible ....
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LIGO Detect Possible Second-Generation Black Holes with Extreme Spins

NDTV 02 Nov 2025
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories detected two extraordinary black hole collisions in late 2024-GW241011 and GW241110. The first involved a rapidly spinning black hole, while the second revealed one... .
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Pair of Distinct Black Hole Mergers Sheds New Light on Nature of Their Formation and Evolution (LIGO Caltech)

Public Technologies 28 Oct 2025
The mergers, measured one month apart in 2024 by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, advance scientific understanding of the nature of black hole formation and fundamental physics ... LIGO-Virgo-Kagra Collaboration ... susanne.milde@ligo.org.
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October’s Night Sky Notes: Let’s Go, LIGO!

NASA 01 Oct 2025
September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert Einstein’s 1916 theory of General Relativity. NASA home page.
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Laser wavefront-correcting device gives LIGO 10x boost to spot distant gravitational waves

Interesting Engineering 28 Sep 2025
Detecting them requires LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), one of the most sensitive instruments ever built.  ... LIGO’s mirrors are 34 cm wide, 20 cm thick, and weigh 40 kg.
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Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos

Gizmodo 27 Sep 2025
And it’s not clear if anything can be done about the problem ....
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The Clearest of Chirps | GW250114 vs. GW150914 audio

Magic Valley 24 Sep 2025
This video compares a newly detected gravitational-wave signal called GW250114 with the first gravitational-wave signal ever detected, GW150914, in 2015. Both signals came from colliding black holes, each between 30 to 40 times the mass of the Sun ...
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GW250114 vs. GW150914 audio

Magic Valley 24 Sep 2025
This video compares a newly detected gravitational-wave signal called GW250114 with the first gravitational-wave signal ever detected, GW150914, in 2015. Both signals came from colliding black holes, each between 30 to 40 times the mass of the Sun ...
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Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine

SpaceDaily 23 Sep 2025
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025 ... It was a different kind of signal ... .
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‘Black-hole hunting machine:’ A decade of breakthroughs at Eastern WA observatory

The News Tribune 20 Sep 2025
10 years after the LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems ... .
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Editorial: Cuts threaten to dim future of LIGO, which has helped La. reach for the stars

The Advocate 18 Sep 2025
Louisiana is known for many things — music, ...
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Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

Futurism 17 Sep 2025
The team analyzed data collected by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors in 2019 that appears to record two black holes merging, with the resulting larger one being kicked away at thousands of miles per second ... ....

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