Popular websites on gravitational waves

• Gravitational-Wave Science (LSC)
• What is a Gravitational Wave? (NASA)
• A Brief History of LIGO (K. Thorne and R. Weiss)
• Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS Collaboration)
• Sounds of Spacetime

Popular articles on gravitational waves

• Gravitational Waves, Einstein’s Ripples in Spacetime, Spotted for First Time
  (A. Cho, Science, 2016)
•  Viewpoint: The First Sounds of Merging Black Holes (E. Berti, Physics, 2016)
• Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory
  (D. Overbye, The New York Times, 2016)
• Gravitational Waves: Breakthrough Discovery after a Century of Expectation
  (T. Radford, The Guardian, 2016)
• The Discovery of Gravitational Waves (Scientific American Special Report)
• Detecting Ripples in Space-Time, with a Little Help from Einstein
  (Space.com, 2015)

Articles for young readers

• Gravitational Wave Detectors—Past, Present, and Future
  (K. S. Thorne, Frontiers for Young Minds, 2024)
•  Gravitational Waves—A New Window on the Universe
  (B. Barish, Frontiers for Young Minds, 2022)
• The New Astronomy: Observing Our Universe With Light and Gravity
  (J. Shapiro Key, Frontiers for Young Minds, 2019)
• Why Can’t You Escape a Black Hole?
  (M. Kersting & M. L. Ruggiero, Frontiers for Young Minds, 2022)

Selected online videos

• Animated Tour of LIGO (L. Cominsky, K. Staats, M. Cavaglia)
• LIGO Interferometer (LIGO Caltech)
• Gravitational Waves Explained (PHD Comics)
• Gravitational Waves Explained Using Stick Figures (MinutePhysics)
• What is a Gravitational Wave? (K. Staats)
• How do we Detect Gravitational Waves? (K. Staats)
• What Types of Gravitational Waves Will LIGO Detect? (K. Staats)
• How Does an Interferometer Work? (K. Staats)
• LVK YouTube Channel

Citizen science websites, games, and gravitational wave apps

• Gravity Spy [help improve gravitational wave detectors]
• Einstein@Home [search for pulsars]
• Chirp [keep track of latest gravitational wave events]
• Make Chirps [exploring GWs app for iPad]
• Gravitational Wave Events [LVK alert app for iPhone]
• ASTRO-COLIBRI [multimessenger event alerts]
• Black Hole Hunter [search for GWs game]
• Space-Time Quest [design a GW detector game]
• Black Hole Master [black hole battle game]
• Pocket Black Hole [turn your phone camera into a gravitational lens; see also Stretch & Squash]

Popular books on gravitational waves

• The Sounds of the Cosmos (M. Diaz, G. Gonzalez, and J. Pullin, 2023)
• Gravity’s Kiss (H. Collins, 2017)
• Black Holes Blues (J. Levin, 2016)
• Gravity’s Shadow (H. Collins, 2004)
• Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony (M. Bartusiak, 2000)
• Ripples in a Cosmic Sea (D. Blair and G. McNamara, 1997)
• Black Holes & Time Warps (K. Thorne, 1994)

Online courses and data tutorials

• Detecting Gravitational Waves, Waves and Gravity (Sonoma State University)
• Tutorials from the Gravitational-Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC)
• Event Catalog, Open Data Workshops (GWOSC)
• Build an Interferometer – with Glue or Magnets

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observatory websites

• LIGO Laboratory [Hanford, Livingston]
• LIGO Livingston Science Education Center
• LIGO Exploration Center (LExC, Hanford site)
• LIGO India
• Virgo and EGO (European Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
• GEO600
• KAGRA and Gravitational Wave Project Office

Other gravitational-wave collaborations

• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), Consortium
• International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA): European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA), North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), Indian Pulsar Timing Array Project (InPTA), Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA)
• Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC)
• Einstein Telescope (ET)
• Cosmic Explorer (CE)

Technical books on gravitational waves

• Gravitational Waves: Volume 1 (M. Maggiore, 2008) and Volume 2 (2018)
• Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy (J. Creighton and W. Anderson, 2011)
• Gravitational Waves in Physics and Astrophysics (M. C. Miller and N.Yunes, 2021)
• Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (N. Andersson, 2020)
• Gravity from the Ground Up (B. Schutz, 2003, chapter 22)
• Modern Classical Physics (K. Thorne and R. Blandford, 2017, chapter 27)
• Gravity (E. Poisson and C. Will, 2014, chapter 11)

Selected technical review articles on gravitational waves

• The First 5 years of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics, (S. Vitale, Science, 2021)
• Gravitational Waves: Sources, Detection, and Searches (K. Riles, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2012)
• Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves (B.S. Sathyaprakash and B. F. Schutz, 2009)
• Gravitational Waves (A. Buonanno, 2007)
• An Overview of Gravitational-Wave Sources (C. Cutler and K. Thorne, 2002)
• New Physics and Astronomy with the New Gravitational-Wave Observatories
  (S. Hughes, S. Marka, P. Bender, and C. Hogan, 2001)
• Gravitational Radiation (K. Thorne) in Three Hundred Years of Gravitation
  (ed. S. Hawking and W. Israel, 1987)
• Living Reviews in Relativity (academic journal)

Experiences or resources specific for K-12 teachers and students

• Educator’s Guide to Gravitational Waves (Sonoma State University)
• IGrav (Cardiff University)

Other resources

• See the LAAC (LSC Academic Advisory Committee) home page for more resources, especially those below.
• LAAC Undergraduate Resources (REUs, graduate school advice)
• LAAC Educational Resources page
• LAAC Job Postings. (See also job opportunities at Caltech or MIT.)