April 11, 2016
Four AST program faculty and their research team contributed to LIGO’s breakthrough discovery, which detected signals emitted from a black-hole collision 1.3 billion light years away. RIT’s LIGO team is preparing for the first-ever black-hole census when LIGO begins its second operational run this summer. Full Article
From Left: Carlos Lousto, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Manuela Campanelli & John Whelan.