LIGO

See also: Ligo, ligo, ligó, and līgõ

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LIGO

  1. (physics, space science) Acronym of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, a large-scale physics experiment that successfully detected gravitational waves in 2015.
    • 2017 October 1, Don Lincoln, “Nobel Prize-winning detectors revealed a cosmic cataclysm”, in CNN‎[1]:
      In February 2016, scientists announced that the first direct observation of gravitational waves had been made using just the two LIGO detectors.

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