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

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’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 ...

"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 ...