Abstract
On September 14th 2015 the LIGO gravitational wave observatories detected a coincident signal from the merger of two massive black holes 1.3 billion years ago. We explore the work needed to build these interferometers, look at the history behind the discovery, and discuss the future for the new field of gravitational wave astronomy.
© 2016 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Phil Willems
CMII1 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2006
R. L. Savage and
STh4P.1 CLEO: Science and Innovations (CLEO:S&I) 2016
Stefan W. Ballmer and for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
LMA2 Laser Science (LS) 2007