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Long before Zoom transformed scientific collaboration, LSU physicist Jorge Pullin, Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics in the LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy, was looking for a way to connect re...

LSU physics professor and observatory head of LIGO Livingston Joseph Giaime discusses the vital funding for LIGO that is in a precarious state. The Advocate's Mark Ballard talks current political topi...

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Science advocates urge Congress to reject 2027 budget plan

“A (nearly) 40% cut would be impossible to accommodate without losing a great number of talented and experienced people needed to continue LIGO’s string of discoveries into the future,” Giaime said.

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LIVINGSTON - The LIGO observatory kicked off the new year with its first Science Saturday of the year.

Appropriators agree instead to keep this year’s spending nearly level

Two recent detections have given the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration new insights into black hole formation and evolution

Trying to figure out the nature of the universe and our place in it has been a quest of humankind since the beginning of time. That these powerful tools exist today in Louisiana should be a source of ...

President Trump’s federal budget proposal includes a 40% budget cut for LIGO

LSU physics professor and observatory head of LIGO Livingston Joseph Giaime talks the 10 year anniversary of the discovery of LIGO and the significant advances throughout the years. Longtime politico ...

Physicists spliced merger’s gravitational signal into isolated frequencies to determine surface areas.

Observation confirms that a black hole’s area can only grow and never shrink

LIGO and its partners celebrate anniversary, announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem

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