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

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Researchers at the Australian National University have developed highly precise optical coatings for LIGO gravitational-wave detectors. The work could improve instruments used to detect signals from colliding black holes and neutron stars.

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.