Relevance: Prelims: General Science
- The LIGO observatories are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and were conceived, built, and are operated by Caltech and MIT.
- LIGO has a pair of ground-based observatories in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana.
- The LIGO has detected the gravitational twice now, the second time witnessing the merging of a second black hole pair. The signal from this merger was weaker than the the 1st observed gravitational waves. Hence a special technique called matched filtering was adapted for gravitational wave data analysis which was developed at IUCAA (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics), Pune.
- LIGO has recently been able to not just detect but also produce Gravitational Waves too! Although these waves are far too feeble to be detected directly, the radiation could be used to detect weird quantum mechanical effects among large objects.
►LIGO-INDIA
- IndIGO (Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations) is a consortium of Indian gravitational wave physicists to set up advanced experimental gravitational-wave observatory facilities in India.
- LIGO-India is a planned advanced gravitational-wave observatory to be located in India as part of the worldwide network.
- LIGO-India is planned as a collaborative project between a consortium of Indian research institutions and the LIGO Laboratory in the USA, along with its international partners Australia, Germany and the UK.
- To establish this, a site near Aundha Nagnath in the Hingoli District, Maharashtra has been selected
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