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India is ready to constructing its own desi version of gravitational wave observatory(LIGO) with the help of US.
The 12.6 billion rupees (US$177 million) project is scheduled for completion in 2024. The observatory will be built in the Hingoli District of Maharashtra state in western India.
The Indian gravitational-wave detector would be only the sixth such observatory in the world and will be similar to the two US detectors in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana.
Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) used to detect the gravitational waves or ripples in space time, the waves originated in cosmos when two massive structures like black holes collides.
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India’s Department of Atomic Energy and its Department of Science and Technology signed a memorandum of understanding with the US National Science Foundation for the LIGO project in March 2016.
The Indian ‘advanced LIGO’ (aLIGO) is expected to help scientists to achieve three main objectives: to pinpoint the source of gravitational waves five to ten times more accurately than current efforts allow; to make accurate calculations of sizes of black holes; and to better understand the Universe’s rate of expansion.
Reference:- The Nature Magazine.