Explanation:

Second statement is wrong because LIGO-India project is piloted by Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).

It was in news because The Environment Ministry has allowed scientists to test the suitability of land in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district to host the India wing of the ambitious Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) project.

The LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) is a massive observatory for detecting cosmic gravitational waves and for carrying out experiments. The objective is to use gravitational-wave observations in astronomical studies.

The project operates three gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. Two are at Hanford in the state of

Washington, north-western US, and one is at Livingston in Louisiana, south- eastern US. The proposed LIGO India project aims to move one advanced LIGO detector from Hanford to India.

The LIGO-India project will be jointly coordinated and executed by three Indian research institutions: the Inter- University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune and Department of Atomic Energy organisations: Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar and the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore.

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What is gravitational waves?

Gravitational waves are disturbances in the curvature (fabric) of spacetime, generated by accelerated masses that propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light. They were proposed by Henri Poincare in 1905 and subsequently predicted in 1916 by Albert Einstein on the basis of his general theory of relativity. Gravitational waves transport energy as gravitational radiation, a form of radiant energy similar to electromagnetic radiation.