EPISODE 1 - LIGO: A DISCOVERY THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

"MIRRORS THAT HANG ON GLASS THREADS" is the first video by the Advanced LIGO Documentary Project, under a grant from the National Science Foundation to film the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy. Sponsorship also is provided by MathWorks, Caltech and MIT. The era was launched by the historic detection of gravitational waves in September 2015, opening up the 95% of the universe that has been dark to our existing observatories and satellite cameras. EPISODE 1 describes one of the brilliant, exquisite innovations in the 40-year search for gravitational waves - one that led to the historic detection of ripples in space time caused by the collision of two black holes 1.4 billion years ago...and now over 50 detections as of September 2021. Our series is now an ebook, with the full text of every episode and 80 photographs! https://books2read.com/LIGO-ADiscover...