The LIGO Lab Is Pushing the Boundaries of Gravitational-Wave Research

Come with Science Quickly on a field trip to the Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Lab at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Host Rachel Feltman is
joined by Matthew Evans, MIT’s MathWorks professor of physics, to
talk about the last 10 years of gravitational-wave research.
Gravitational waves were discovered in 2015 by the LIGO team. Since
then, innovations from the LIGO Lab have changed our understanding
of the universe and made major shifts across physics. Now they’re
preparing for the next generation of gravitational-wave
detectors.  Recommended reading: The 2015 Paper Announcing the
Discovery of Gravitational Waves:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.03837  Listen to the Astonishing
‘Chirp’ of Two Black Holes Merging
https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/listen-to-the-astonishing-chirp-of-two-black-holes-merging1/
5 New Types of Gravitational-Wave Detectors Could Reshape
Astrophysics
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/5-new-types-of-gravitational-wave-detectors-could-reshape-astrophysics/
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