Oct 24, 2025 · LIGO is operated by the LIGO Laboratory, a consortium of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Funded by the …

What is LIGO? The acronym, LIGO, stands for "Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory". Wholly supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, LIGO is the world's …

LIGO is a national facility for gravitational-wave research providing opportunities for the broader scientific community to participate in detector development, observation, and data analysis.

Oct 24, 2025 · The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consists of two widely separated installations within the United States — one in Hanford Washington and the …

LIGO was designed to make such inconceivable, exquisitely small measurements. To learn how LIGO achieves this seemingly impossible task, visit LIGO's Interferometer.

Bringing together "What is LIGO" and "What is an Interferometer?" content to explain LIGO's IFO design.

Aerial views of the LIGO Livingston (top left) and Hanford (bottom left) observatories. At right, 90 gravitational wave events are depicted in this chart, arranged by their date of detection …

As technology itself evolves, so too does LIGO, and with each step in its evolution over time, LIGO's instruments and others like it around the world have opened the field of gravitational …

There are three crucial reasons for LIGO utilizing two interferometers, and for their wide separation: Local vibrations, gravitational wave travel time, and source localization. First, NSF …

Below are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the National Science Foundation Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (NSF LIGO)