Sunday, December 24, 2017

A new LIGO gravitational wave detector to be built in India by 2025

A new gravitational wave detector to

measure ripples in the fabric of space and time is set to be built in India by 2025, in collaboration with universities from across the globe.
The new Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector will add to the two already operational in the US. The LIGO detectors discovered the first gravitational waves produced by two giant merging blackholes last year. The research won a Nobel Prize in Physics this year.
The location for the new detector in India has been selected, and the acquisition has started, said Somak Raychaudhury, Director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) Pune. However, the site has not been revealed yet.