LIGO-India, an advanced gravitational-wave (GW) observatory to be located in India, as part of a worldwide network of GW observatories has been approved by the Indian Government.
The advanced gravitational-wave detector to be built in Maharashtra at an estimated cost of Rs 2,600 crore will be a major milestone towards expanding frontier scientific infrastructure in India.
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) – India is a collaboration between the LIGO Laboratory (operated by Caltech and MIT) and three Institutes in India: the Raja Ramanna Center for Advanced Technology (RRCAT, in Indore), the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR in Ahmedabad), and the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA, in Pune).
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