Virgo 3.0

摘要

THIS magnificent instrument, captured by photographer Enrico Sacchetti, is the Advanced Virgo+ interferometer. The image has been shortlisted for a major science photography prize, while the detector itself is on a quest for another sort of glory.Run by a European consortium and located in the village of Santo Stefano a Macerata, Italy, Advanced Virgo+ is an upgrade to one of the detectors that hunt for clues about the universe's origins contained in gravitational waves. Virgo has been used alongside two other detectors that make up the US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).