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Close ✕LIGO Hanford Observatory
One of the two American laser interferometers whose simultaneous response constitutes a gravitational-wave detection, situated on the Hanford Site in eastern Washington State.
46.5, -119.4 · approximate · operating since 2002; Advanced LIGO observing runs from 2015
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- A place in: Approaching a Black Hole · 4 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates