UMass physicists part of historic Gravitational Wave team

The LIGO collaboration announced on Feb 11 that they had successfully detected the gravitational wave signal from the violent merger of two black holes. The author list of the article published in Physical Review Letters includes UMass students Dan Hoak, Alex Lombardi, Kalina Nedkova and Sarah Zuraw. Former UMass Physics professor and Chair of the LIGO Data Analysis Council Prof. Laura Cadonati spoke about the discovery at the Physics department colloquium on Wednesday Feb 17, 2016.