LIGO Documentary

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Published: 2026-06-28T00:49:26.160Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Rai Weiss, Nobel Prize winning creator of LIGO.

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In the spring of 2015, we were invited by Caltech and the LIGO Laboratory to make the definitive inside documentary about the expected discovery of gravitational waves from deep space, after a 50-year search. The discovery would open up the 95% of the universe we’ve never seen before - the violent, “warped side,” as Caltech’s Kip Thorne famously called it. (Kip also was the creator of the feature film, INTERSTELLAR.) The documentary would be a collaboration with Caltech, MIT and LIGO, the international collaboration of more than 1,000 physicists and engineers, which already had spent $1 billion building and perfecting its two giant detectors in Louisiana and Washington State.

We began production that August with a two-day shoot at Caltech, a few weeks before the launch of Advanced LIGO, the project’s $200 million five-year upgrade. We interviewed Kip Thorne and Barry Barish (both later would win the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with MIT’s Rai Weiss), but we told them it would be brief. We wanted to continue filming them (and everyone else) over time, as events unfolded, so they could chronicle LIGO in the present tense, as discoveries were happening, not in the past or future tenses. The present tense of science and discovery is where the thrill communicates on camera, as director Les Guthman has documented throughout his career.

And we were there, as we hoped, for every twist and turn in what became a stunning, thrilling, unprecedented two-year run of mind-bending discovery.

Everyone had told us it would be “a year or two” before the detection would be made. But not long after we interviewed Thorne and Barish, we were at the LIGO Livingston Observatory outside of Baton Rouge, in great good fortune, on the day the historic signal came in. The waveform was a remnant and messenger from the first detected cataclysmic collision of two black holes. Almost everyone at LIGO, around the world, was taken by complete surprise.

We filmed as they kept the detection secret for another tense and emotional four months until all doubts were dispelled and their discovery paper was accepted for publication. We continued through 2016, 2017 and the equally stunning detection of two colliding neutron stars, which ignited a gamma ray burst-kilonova light show that became the most observed cosmic event in history. Telescopes and satellite-based cameras around the world turned in a matter of minutes to catch it. We raced to CERN ten days later, where LIGO was holding its semi-annual meeting. The air was electric with discovery.

That fall, our three principal characters, Kip Thorne; Rai Weiss, who spent 50 years perfecting the exquisite sensitivity of the detectors; and Barry Barish, who “saved” LIGO from warring factions and built the two detectors; won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Our last shoot was a magic, icy December week in Stockholm with them.

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