Question: In which of the following state in India, recently land granted for country’s first LIGO Project?
a) Kerala
b) Maharashtra
c) Himachal Pradesh
d) Tamil Nadu
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:-
- India to start now first LIGO project in the country as the land for it recently granted in Maharashtra.
- The Hingoli revenue department has handed over 225 hectare of land here in Maharashtra to authorities of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project.
- There are currently a couple of such labs in the U.S. at Hanford in Washington and Livingston in Louisiana which study the gravitational waves.
- In 2016, the central government had given an ‘in principle’ approval to the LIGO-India mega science proposal for research on gravitational waves.
- COVID-19 pandemic although delayed the transfer of the land but now it is cleared finally for the LIGO) project.
- The key infrastructure work of the lab will begin after necessary formalities are completed between the project officials and the central government.
- They will set up a laboratory along with some other related infrastructure in Hingoli.
- The project will provide opportunities to scientists and engineers to dig deeper into the realm of gravitational waves.
- It should be noted that a few years back, scientists had for the first time observed ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves.
- These gravitational waves had come towards at the earth from two merging black holes a cataclysmic event in the distant universe.