Things are about to get even more exciting as LIGO undergoes more planned upgrades and other
observatories join the hunt for gravitational waves.
Not exact matches
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.
Virgo, Europe's premier gravitational wave detector, today
joined forces with the two detectors of its U.S. counterpart, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave
Observatory (LIGO), in the
hunt for ripples in space - time following a $ 24 million upgrade.