Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — that ...
RICHLAND – The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern Washington has died. Rainer Weiss, 92, died Aug. 25 in ...
LIGO Hanford detected record-setting black hole merger, challenging current knowledge. Merged black holes spun near general relativity’s limit, baffling scientists. Funding cuts threaten U.S.
Louisiana LIGO scientists fear Trump administration's proposed cuts: 'So much science would be lost'
Scientists believe if the Trump administration's proposed budget is approved, a Louisiana space observatory could be on the chopping block and see its scientific mission crippled. The Trump ...
A tabletop model demonstrates how lasers are used in the 2 1/2 mile tunnels at LIGO. The laser beam on the right is split and sent to mirrors on the left and lower right to bounce back to the center.
Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), tucked away in the piney woods of Livingston Parish, feared their operation detecting black holes would be shuttered after ...
The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation's two cutting-edge observatories - one of them in the Tri-Cities - that made scientific history and launched a new way to study the universe.
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