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LIGO is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.
When cataclysmic events occur in space like the merging of two Black Holes, it produces Gravitational Waves, which can be likened to someone dropping a stone into a pond of water.
The ripples in the pond are like Gravitational Waves rippling through spacetime.
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physicsexperiment and observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to develop gravitational-wave observations as an astronomical tool.[1] Two large observatories were built in the United States with the aim of detecting gravitational waves by laserinterferometry. These can detect a change in the 4 km mirror spacing of less than a ten-thousandth the charge diameter of a proton, equivalent to measuring the distance to Proxima Centauri with an accuracy smaller than the width of a human hair.[2]