The Hingoli income division has given the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project 225 hectares of land in Maharashtra.
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The land was given to the country in order to organise primary facilities.
In the United States, just two such labs exist: Hanford in Washington and Livingston in Louisiana. Gravitational waves are studied at these labs.
This initiative will provide scientists and engineers more for Learning more about gravitational waves.
In 2016, the LIGO-India mega scientific plan for analysing gravity waves received “in principle” permission from the Indian government.
LIGO is a huge observatory designed to detect and experiment with cosmic gravitational waves. Its primary goal is to exploit gravitational-wave data in astronomy research.
The LIGO India project was suggested with the goal of relocating one of the most sophisticated LIGO detectors from Hanford to India.
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Atomic Energy are piloting this initiative (DAE).