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Learn more

explore the links below for more info on LIGO and gravitational waves

Main LIGO websites

  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration
  • LIGO Facebook page & Twitter page
  • LIGO Lab site
  • LIGO MIT site


Videos about LIGO/gravitational waves

  • PhD Comics: Gravitational Waves Explained [3 minutes]
  • Gravity: Making Waves, short science bulletin by the American Museum of Natural History [AMNH site], [youtube]. 
  • Einstein's Messengers [NSF site], [youtube]. ~20 min long.
  • LIGO: A Passion for Understanding [space.com site], [Kai Staats' site], [youtube] [20 minutes]; [nice 2 min trailer: vimeo, youtube].
  • LIGO: Generations [space.com site] [Kai Staats' site], [youtube] [25 minutes];  [2 min trailer, vimeo, space.com].
  • APS TV clip on LIGO [~6min].
  • NSF detection press conference; (part 2 has additional Q&A).
  • Caltech post-detection panel discussion, Ripples in Spacetime

Sounds and simulations

  • Scott Hughes' gravitaitonal-wave sounds website  was the inspiration for this site.
  • EMRI animations by Steve Drasco.
  • Sounds from the SXS collaboration and Teviet Creighton.
  • BH merger movies from SXS collaboration.
  • Inspiral animations by P. Ajith's group at ICTS.
  • The Sounds of Pulsars.
  • Black Hole Hunter (a game illustrating gravitational wave signals buried in noise).
  • Gravitational wave detectors and sources (shows detector sensitivity curves).

More places to learn more

  • Marc's GW Resources website
  • Marc's Outreach website
  • black-holes.org​

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