- The Director of the Raman Research Institute Bengaluru said that this LIGO will which was created will help in cutting-edge frontiers of great national relevance, especially quantum-sensing and metrology.
- LIGO is built by the U.S. Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology.
- This will be accompanied by an MoU with the National Science Foundation and several national and international research institutes.
- The Government of India had given in-principal approval to the project in February 2016.
- LIGO is the world's most powerful observatory that exploits the physical properties of light and space to detect and understand the origin of gravitational waves.
- This observatory will help in better understanding of celestial objects like neutron stars and black holes and in-depth study of gravitational waves.
- Each LIGO detector has two arms, each 4 kilometres long, consisting of 2-meter-wide steel vacuum tubes arranged in an "L" shape and anchored by a 10-foot-wide, 12-foot-tall concrete shelter. are covered, which protect the tubes from fire.
Question:
Q.1 In which state was Advanced Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) to be set up?a. Rajasthan
b. Maharashtra
c. Haryana
d. Uttar Pradesh
