LIGO Livingston

Overview

LIGO Livingston in Louisiana is the second US LIGO detector; together with LIGO Hanford it detected the first gravitational waves from merging black holes.

Observing bands

Knowledge connections

• Operated byNational Science Foundation
• Built byCaltech/IPAC
• ObservesGravitational waves
• ObservesMulti-messenger astronomy
• Discovery facility forThe First Detection of Gravitational Waves
• MeasuresGravitational Waves

Sources

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• NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

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