"We're looking for very violent events where space gets disrupted, " said physicist Fred Raab, director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ( LIGO ) at Hanford nuclear reservation in south-central Washington.
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Other priorities include Laser Interferometer Space Antenna ( LISA ) for measuring gravitational waves and International X-ray Observatory for investigating black holes and the evolution of large scale structure in the universe.
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The Fermilab "'Holometer "'in Illinois is intended to be the world's most sensitive laser interferometer, surpassing the sensitivity of the GEO600 and LIGO systems, and theoretically able to detect holographic fluctuations in spacetime.
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It was to detect those waves for the first time that physicists designed the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, which actually consists of two separate stations, one in Louisiana and one in Washington state.
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Among them was Dr . Kip S . Thorne of the California Institute of Technology, a leader in the construction of the $ 350-million Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO ( pronounced LIE-go ).
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Professor Byer led Stanford University's contributions to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, which made the first-ever detection of a disturbance in space-time caused by a pair of merging black holes on September 14, 2015.
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The "'Laser Interferometer Space Antenna "'( "'LISA "'), is a proposed European Space Agency mission designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time from astronomical sources.
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In February 2016, it was announced that scientists at the advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory ( LIGO ) had observed gravitational waves for the first time ever, confirming Albert Einstein s 1915 general theory of relativity.
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Future Januarys may be filled with results from projects like LIGO ( Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ), which aim to measure the faint waves of gravity emitted by collapsing stars, colliding black holes and other calamities.
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Such collisions are believed to create gravitational disturbances that may be detectable in an experiment called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO . Initial observations should begin next spring with full operations in 2002.
