Episode 8 of the LIGO Documentary Released

The final 8th episode of Les Guthman's documentary "LIGO: A Discovery that Shook the World", has been released.

This episode, titled "LIGO and Beyond," looks ahead to the future of gravitational wave discovery -- from cutting-edge enhancements to Advanced LIGO to new detectors planned in Europe and the U.S., such as space-based LISA project and future earth-based projects Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope.

Watch below:

EPISODE 8 - LIGO: A DISCOVERY THAT SHOOK THE WORLD from aLIGO Documentary Project on Vimeo.

 

Previous episodes

Episodes 6, Movies Made from Numbers and 7, Stockholm (released October 18, 2019)
Episodes 4, Inventing LIGO and 5, Advanced LIGO (released October 14, 2019)
Episode 3, So Many Staggering Insights about Our Universe (released February 22, 2018)
Episode 2, The New Age of Gravitational Wave Astronomy (released August 9, 2017)
Episode 1, Mirrors that Hang on Glass Threads (released February 16, 2017)

Image and videos courtesy of Les Guthman / aLIGO Documentary Project. Image: Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)