Union Cabinet grants approval to LIGO-India to build gravitational-wave Detector in Maharashtra

Union Cabinet grants approval to LIGO-India to build gravitational-wave Detector in Maharashtra

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: April 11 2023

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  • The Union Cabinet of the Government of India headed by Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi approved the LIGO-India (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in India) mega science proposal for research on gravitational waves.
  • The LIGO-India project will establish a state-of-the-art gravitational wave observatory in Hingoli, Maharashtra (India) in collaboration with the LIGO Laboratory in the United States of America (USA).
  • The LIGO project is piloted by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
  • The project worth Rs 2600 crore is estimated to be built by 2030.
  • Around 300 acres of land have been acquired for the project.
  • The LIGO is a giant L-shaped instrument. Each arm of the ‘L’ is 4 kilometres (Km) long.
  • LIGO Laboratory is a consortium of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
  • LIGO-India will be the 3rd advanced gravitational-wave observatory established as part of the worldwide network.
  • Such LIGO observatories are already been established in Louisiana and Washington in the USA.
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