Newly dedicated observatory to search for gravitational waves- All Images

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News Release 15-056

Newly dedicated observatory to search for gravitational waves

First run scheduled for fall 2015

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Northern arm of the LIGO interferometer on Hanford facility in Richland, Washington

The California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed and operate the NSF-funded LIGO that is aimed to see and record gravitational waves for the first time, allowing us to learn more about phenomena like supernovae and colliding black holes that generate the waves.

Credit: Cfoellmi via Wikimedia Commons

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