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The showpiece Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is designed to work in sync with two similar facilities in the United States which, in 2015, detected gravitational waves for ...

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Scientists report over 100 new gravitational wave detections, doubling the known catalog of black hole and neutron star mergers, providing new data on extreme cosmic collisions.