Quantum mechanics usually applies to very small objects: atoms, electrons and the like. But physicists have now brought the equivalent of a 10-kilogram object to the edge of the quantum realm.

The National Science Foundation funds LIGO observatories, and currently, they are working on applying updates to allow the observatories to reach further into the cosmos. Currently, there are LIGO ...

LIGO is designed to detect gravitational waves, but it is also proving to be a fantastic laboratory for pushing the limits of quantum physics. Now, an international team of researchers has cooled the ...

Under the direction of assistant professor of physics Joshua Smith, Cal State Fullerton physics students have the opportunity to work with a LIGO mirror to learn more about and detect gravitational ...

Since LIGO's groundbreaking detection, in 2015, of gravitational waves produced by a pair of colliding black holes, the observatory, together with its European partner facility Virgo, has detected ...

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Large quantum objects: two of LIGO’s mirrors, each weighing 40 kg. (Courtesy: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab) Physicists working on the LIGO gravitational-wave observatory in the US have shown that ...