Kavli Affiliate: Takaaki Kajita | First 5 Authors: David Reitze, Michele Punturo, Peter Couvares, Stavros Katsanevas, Takaaki Kajita | Summary: The first direct detection of gravitational waves emitted from a pair of merging black holes in 2015 has been heralded as one of most significant scientific breakthroughs in physics and astronomy of the 21st century. […]
Continue.. Expanding the Reach of Gravitational Wave Astronomy to the Edge of the Universe: The Gravitational-Wave International Committee Study Reports on Next Generation Ground-based Gravitational-Wave Observatories