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The University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey telescope, to which astronomers have added an automated search system to rapidly respond to gravitational wave detections from the LIGO and VIRGO observatories in the U.S. and Italy.
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Algorithms Aid Search for Source of Spacetime Rumbles

A new, automated telescope search program in Arizona called SAGUARO hopes to catch neutron stars in the act of colliding

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Detector engineers are pictured here beginning the hardware upgrades inside the vacuum system of the detector at LIGO Hanford Observatory,
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Black Holes Bumping in the Night: LIGO "Hears" Gravitational Waves With Increasing Sensitivity

Technological enhancements to the Nobel Prize-winning detectors include ultra-efficient mirrors and “squeezed” laser light

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An illustration of a gamma-ray burst shows a blue cloud of bright light against a dark background.
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LIGO Detects Collision of Neutron Stars

The phenomenon, which produced gravitational waves and was closely followed by a gamma-ray burst, occurred 130 million light-years from Earth

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Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne, have been awarded the Nobel Physics Prize 2017 for their gravitational wave work.
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Nobel Prize Awarded for Detection of Gravity Waves

Three share award for building LIGO and hearing black holes collide

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