LIGO

See also: Ligo, ligo, ligó, and līgõ

English

Alternative forms

• Ligo

Proper noun

LIGO

1. (physics, space science) Acronym of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, a large-scale physics experiment that successfully detected gravitational waves in 2015.
   • 2017 October 1, Don Lincoln, “Nobel Prize-winning detectors revealed a cosmic cataclysm”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In February 2016, scientists announced that the first direct observation of gravitational waves had been made using just the two LIGO detectors.

Anagrams

• gilo, glio-, olig-