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31/03/22 07:00 AM IST

LIGO-India Project

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  • Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions,  Dr Jitendra Singh said that Government of India accorded In-principle approval for Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO)-India project at an estimated cost of Rs. 1260 crore.
About Project 
  • The project involves constructing a network of L-shaped arms, each four kilometres long, which can detect even the faintest ripples from cosmic explosions millions of light years away.
  • The project, piloted by the Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology and is expected to be ready by 2025.
  • LIGO India is a planned advanced gravitational-wave observatory to be located in India as part of the worldwide network.
  • The LIGO project operates three gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. Two are at Hanford in the State of Washington, north-western USA, and one is at Livingston in Louisiana, south-eastern USA.
  • The LIGO-India project is an international collaboration between the LIGO Laboratory and three lead institutions in the LIGO-India consortium: Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar; IUCAA, Pune; and Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore.
Gravitational Waves
  • Gravitational waves are distortions or 'ripples' in the fabric of space-time caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the Universe.
  • They transport energy as gravitational radiation and pass through matter without interacting with it.

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