LIGO-India – A Gravitational Wave detector project on Indian Soil

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration released the catalog of events and papers estimating their rates detected in the first (O1) & second (O2) observation run.
Credit: Visualization: LIGO/Frank Elavsky/Northwestern | Non-LIGO Data Sources: Neutron Stars: http://xtreme.as.arizona.edu/NeutronStars/data/pulsar_masses.dat Black Holes: https://stellarcollapse.org/sites/default/files/table.pdf | LIGO-Virgo Data: https://www.gw-openscience.org/events/
The beginning of Gravitational Wave Multi-messenger Astronomy
First GW detection from a neutron star merger; Concurrent detection by electromagnetic telescopes [Image Credit: CESSI, IISER Kolkata]
Gravitational Waves Detected
LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes. IUCAA physicists make fundamental contributions in the discovery. [Image Credit: The SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project]
What are GW?
Find out more about 'the messengers of Einstein' - Gravitational Waves - propagating disturbances in the curvature of space-time caused by the motions of matter... [Image Credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL]

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) - India is a planned advanced gravitational-wave observatory to be located in India as part of the worldwide network, whose concept proposal is now under active consideration in India and the USA. LIGO-India is envisaged as a collaborative project between a consortium of Indian research institutions and the LIGO Laboratory in USA, along with its international partners.

LIGO-India received the Indian Government's in-principle approval in February 2016. Since then the project reached several milestones towards selecting and acquiring a site and building the observatory.