Event Brief
China advances optical core for Taiji gravitational waves
Filed: May 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM ET
Summary: Chinese scientists developed the optical core for a space-based Taiji gravitational wave detector to listen to the universe.
WHO: Chinese scientists from the Institute of Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
WHAT: Development of the optical core for Taiji’s space-based gravitational wave detector
WHEN: May 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM ET
WHERE: China
WHY: Part of a project to build hardware for a space-based gravitational wave detector.
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