UK invests in blackhole-hunting LIGO facilities in Louisiana and Washington to get an upgrade to 'see' further

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Scientists will be able to detect three blackhole collision events in a single day after upgrading work is completed by the mid-2020s

A planned $35 million upgrade could enable the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in Louisiana and Washington to detect black hole mergers nearly twice as far awa...

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