«The farther out you can look, the more galaxies, and hence more gravitational wave sources, are visible to you,» Mavalvala says. (sciencemag.org)
Italy's Advanced Virgo instrument will come online this fall in conjunction with LIGO, allowing astronomers to pinpoint gravitational wave sources. (discovermagazine.com)
But the pomp will belie nagging problems that are likely to keep Virgo from joining its U.S. counterpart, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), in a hunt for gravitational wave sources that was meant to start next month. (sciencemag.org)