Inside the LIGO facility in Hanford, Washington
LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, consists of two widely-separated interferometers within the United States — one in Hanford, Washington and the other in Livingston, Louisiana — operated in unison to detect gravitational waves. Here the Hanford facility is seen. LIGO was designed to open the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics through the direct detection of gravitational waves predicted by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. The multi-kilometer-scale gravitational wave detectors use laser interferometry to measure the minute ripples in space-time caused by passing gravitational waves from cataclysmic cosmic events such as colliding neutron stars or black holes, or by supernovae.
Créditos:NOIRLab/LIGO/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos
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Id: | LIGO-8K_29-CC |
Release date: | 2 de Abril de 2024 a las 15:50 |
Duración: | 12 s |
Cuadros por segundo: | 30 fps |
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Categoría: | NSF Infrastructures (other) |