Summaries of LSC Scientific Publications
We now feature, for each new research article, a summary written for the general public. Simply click on any of the titles for an online version, or on the '[flyer]' links for a downloadable file in PDF format. Translations into several languages are also available for some of these summaries. Where not noted separately, translations can be accessed through their language acronyms (e.g. 'es' for Spanish, also see details in the sidebar) or from the top of the English online versions.
Looking down a detector arm

Visitors at LIGO Hanford Observatory gaze down the site's X arm. Half of the 4-kilometer length of the arm is visible in the photo. (Credit: LIGO Laboratory)
Translations: language keys
For most summaries, we list the available translations by their ISO 639-1 / ISO 639-2 keys, as listed below. Translations are a volunteer effort and different sets of languages are available for each summary. You can search for the key of your language, in square brackets – for instance [fr] for French – on this page to find all science summaries that have been translated into it.
- [bla]: Blackfoot (Siksiká)
- [bn]: Bengali (Bangla)
- [ca]: Catalan (Català)
- [de]: German (Deutsch)
- [el]: Greek (Ellinika)
- [es]: Spanish (Español)
- [fr]: French (Français)
- [gl]: Galician (Galego)
- [he]: Hebrew (Ivrit)
- [hi]: Hindi
- [hu]: Hungarian (Magyar)
- [it]: Italian (Italiano)
- [ja]: Japanese (Nihongo)
- [ko]: Korean (Hanguk-eo)
- [mr]: Marathi
- [ne]: Nepali
- [nl]: Dutch (Nederlands)
- [pl]: Polish (Polszczyzna)
- [pt]: Portuguese (Português)
- [ru]: Russian (Rússkiy)
- [zh]: Chinese (Hànyǔ); sometimes two versions are available:
[zh-Hans] (simplified characters)
[zh-Hant] (traditional characters)