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Press Statement 19-002
Upgraded LIGO to search for universe's most extreme events
Grants from US, UK, Australia will fund next generation improvements to state-of-the-art gravitational wave detectors
Artist's illustration of two merging neutron stars. The narrow beams represent the gamma-ray burst while the rippling space-time grid indicates the isotropic gravitational waves that characterize the merger. Swirling clouds of material ejected from the merging stars are a possible source of the light that was seen at lower energies.
Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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