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GW observatory · Proposed

Cosmic Explorer

A proposed United States third-generation gravitational-wave observatory with arms up to forty kilometres long — a scaled-up successor to LIGO that, with the Einstein Telescope, would open the distant gravitational-wave universe.

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  • LIGO Scientific CollaborationLIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration

    Direct detections of gravitational waves from compact-object mergers.