SPOT: Dr. Michael Landry - Colliding black holes and neutron stars |
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From 2010 to 2015, Landry led the installation of the Advanced LIGO detector at Hanford. The entire project was a collaboration of two groups of scientists from around the world, totaling over twelve hundred people. Referred to as the LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations, they eventually led to the first direct detection of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. This discovery (announced February 11, 2016) led to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the groups’ original lead scientists.
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