Digging Up Gravity at Japan's KAGRA

Japanese researchers go underground to detect gravitational waves.

By Tim Hornyak
May 2, 2016 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 4:50 AM
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A new window to the cosmos is open, now that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration has detected Einstein’s long-predicted gravitational waves. LIGO’s detectors, based in Washington state and Louisiana, will soon be joined by another instrument trying to net these elusive ripples in space-time. Experts hope to start test operations this year at Japan’s Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA); observational data is expected by March 2018.

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