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Adaptive LIGO and a New Look at an Old Crater

Walkabout the Galaxy by Joshua Colwell

Oct 1, 202539:33Science & Medicine

Adaptive optics techniques get applied to the mirrors in the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, promising a five-fold or greater improvement in sensitivity to gravitational waves from colliding black holes across the u...

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Adaptive LIGO and a New Look at an Old Crater is an episode from Walkabout the Galaxy by Joshua Colwell. Adaptive optics techniques get applied to the mirrors in the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, promising a five-fold or greater impr...

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Published Oct 1, 2025, 39:33 long, audio available.