Meaning of LIGO | Babel Free

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1. Alternative letter-case form of LIGO
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2. Acronym of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, a large-scale physics experiment that successfully detected gravitational waves in 2015.
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“In February 2016, scientists announced that the first direct⟳ observation of gravitational waves had been made using just the two LIGO detectors.”

““These are the highest masses of black holes we’ve confidently measured with gravitational waves,” said Hannam, a member of the Ligo scientific collaboration.”

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