Main LIGO websites
Videos about LIGO/gravitational waves
- PhD Comics: Gravitational Waves Explained [3 minutes]
- Gravity: Making Waves, short science bulletin by the American Museum of Natural History [AMNH site], [youtube].
- Einstein's Messengers [NSF site], [youtube]. ~20 min long.
- LIGO: A Passion for Understanding [space.com site], [Kai Staats' site], [youtube] [20 minutes]; [nice 2 min trailer: vimeo, youtube].
- LIGO: Generations [space.com site] [Kai Staats' site], [youtube] [25 minutes]; [2 min trailer, vimeo, space.com].
- APS TV clip on LIGO [~6min].
- NSF detection press conference; (part 2 has additional Q&A).
- Caltech post-detection panel discussion, Ripples in Spacetime
Sounds and simulations
- Scott Hughes' gravitaitonal-wave sounds website was the inspiration for this site.
- EMRI animations by Steve Drasco.
- Sounds from the SXS collaboration and Teviet Creighton.
- BH merger movies from SXS collaboration.
- Inspiral animations by P. Ajith's group at ICTS.
- The Sounds of Pulsars.
- Black Hole Hunter (a game illustrating gravitational wave signals buried in noise).
- Gravitational wave detectors and sources (shows detector sensitivity curves).