The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are back on

Improved instruments could spot more colliding black holes or even new phenomena

Virgo mirror

MIRROR, MIRROR  The search for gravitational waves is back on, after improvements to detectors’ mirrors (one mirror from the Virgo detector, shown) and other components.

M. Perciballi/EGO & Virgo Collaboration

It’s open season in scientists’ hunt for gravitational waves.