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Caltech Celebrates 10 Years of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

News Release • October 24, 2025

Watch recordings of celebratory and commemorative talks by Kip Thorne, Rana Adhikari, and others, held at Caltech on October 10, 2025
Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine

News Release • September 10, 2025

LIGO and its partners celebrate anniversary, announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Detect Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date

News Release • July 15, 2025

Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models
India Approves Construction of Its Own LIGO

Feature Story • April 17, 2023

LIGO-India will greatly improve the localization of sources of gravitational waves
What are gravitational waves? Why are we looking for them? LIGO's Impact Public Alerts

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Jane Glanzer wins LIGO Lab 2025 Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration

News Release • November 25, 2025

Headlines

LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA Complete Fourth Observing Run

News Release • November 18, 2025

Pair of Distinct Black Hole Mergers Sheds New Light on Nature of Their Formation and Evolution

News Release • October 28, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Helps Boost LIGO

News Release • September 8, 2025

LIGO Laboratory mourns the passing of Prof. Rainer Weiss of MIT, one of the founders of LIGO

News Release • August 27, 2025

GWTC-4.0: Updated Gravitational-Wave Catalog Released

News Release • August 26, 2025

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