Ultra-precise coatings help power the next generation of gravitational wave detectors

Ultra-precise coatings help power the next generation of gravitational wave detectors

Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have engineered new optical coatings for LIGO, the global collaboration hunting gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars.

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