Sentences with phrase «wave detector finally»
A joint French and Italian project to build a gravitational wave detector finally received the go - ahead from the Italian authorities last month.
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But LIGO did not register the gravitational waves coming from them until 9:50:45 Coordinated Universal Time on 14 September, when the wave's frequency rose above some 30 cycles per second (hertz)-- corresponding to 15 full black - hole orbits per second — and was finally high enough for the detectors to distinguish it from background noise.
The spectacular event took place around 1.8 billion light years from Earth, so this is how far the gravitational waves would have had to travel before being detected first by the Advanced LIGO detector in Louisiana (USA), followed by a second detection by the second LIGO detector in Washington State (USA), and then finally the third detection was picked up by the Advanced Virgo detector near Pisa (Italy).