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  • Apr 11, 2023
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Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO Project

News: An multinational network of laboratories is called LIGO.

It looks for swells in spacetime caused by the motion of big celestial bodies.

A group of Indian research institutions, the USA’s LIGO Laboratory, and other foreign partners are working together on the LIGO-India collaboration.

It would be situated in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district.

The Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Atomic Energy jointly constructed it under a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. National Science Foundation.

The goal is to find and research gravitational waves.

Several orders of magnitude smaller distance changes than the proton’s length can be measured by LIGOs.

The General Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein first theorised gravitational waves, and this project will see India join the international effort to detect and study gravitational waves.

Gravitational waves are incredibly faint and challenging to spot.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered them for the first time in person in 2015.

The government’s ultimate approval for the construction of LIGO-India means that it will soon become the largest scientific facility in the nation.