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World Service,02 Feb 2000,23 mins

LIGO - going where no observatory has gone before

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Report on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). In Washington State US, the largest in a global network of observatories designed to detect the faintest objects in the universe including gravity waves from black holes and neutron stars.

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