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Sharmila Kuthunur

India will start building new gravitational wave observatory

The LIGO project's gravitational-wave detector facility in Livingston, Louisiana.

India will soon break ground on a detector that will hunt for tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time.

On April 6, the Indian Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved 26 billion rupees ($318 million) to start construction of a new gravitational wave observatory in the western state of Maharashtra. The observatory, which will work in tandem with four similar facilities around the world, is expected to be up and running by 2030.

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