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    Ligo - A Gigantic Interferometer: Spacetime Gravitational Wave Black Hole

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    Ligo - A Gigantic Interferometer: Spacetime Gravitational Wave Black Hole

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    L I G O A GIGAN TIC IN TERF ER O M ET ER

    GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BLACK HOLE SPACETIME

    3
    MIRROR MIRROR
    The light
    waves bounce
    and return.

    4 km 2 A beam splitter splits the


    light and sends out two
    identical beams along the
    4 km long arms.

    4
    A gravitational wave affects the
    interferometers arms differently;

    1 Laser light is sent into


    the instrument to
    when one extends the other contracts
    as they are passed by the peaks and
    measure changes in troughs of the gravitational waves.
    the length of the two

    5
    arms. Normally, the light returns unchang-
    ed to the beam splitter from both
    arms and the light waves cancel
    each other out.
    LASER LIGHT WAVES
    CANCEL EACH
    OTHER OUT

    BEAM SPLITTER LIGHT DETECTOR

    6 If the arms are disturbed by a


    gravitational wave, the light waves LIGHT WAVES HIT
    THE LIGHT DETECTOR
    will have travelled different distan-
    ces. Light then escapes through the BEAM SPLITTER LIGHT DETECTOR
    splitter and hits the detector.

    Illustration: Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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