Even a temporary shutdown will delay scientific progress and result in America losing ground to international researchers.

“We’re really moving from novelty to new observational science — a new astronomy of gravitational waves,” said MIT senior research scientist David Shoemaker, spokesman for the LIGO tea ...

One of LIGO’s four 40-kg mirrors cooled during the experiment. Together, these mirrors form a mechanical oscillator of 10-kg — which the team cooled down in their experiment. Caltech/MIT/LIGO ...

"We can't control nature, but we can control our detectors," says Lisa Barsotti, a senior research scientist at MIT who oversaw the development of the new LIGO technology, a project that ...

LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Jeff Kissel, CC BY-ND Scientists have been working on many technological improvements. One particularly promising upgrade involved adding a 1,000-foot (300-meter) optical cavity ...

(LIGO / MIT / Caltech Illustration) Another big announcement about gravitational waves is coming up, and this time the hints point to observations in electromagnetic wavelengths as well ...

Related: Hunting gravitational waves: The LIGO laser interferometer project in ... an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), "to getting a binary black hole every ...

(Photograph courtesy: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab; illustration courtesy: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A Simonnet) When contemplating these first seven years of gravitational ...