Two large instrumented baffles designed and built by researchers and engineers from IFAE have been successfully installed in the arms of the Virgo detector. The installation marks an important milestone in the ongoing upgrade of the observatory ahead of the next…

Yesterday, Thursday 28 May, the new space of the CRAL EGO-VIRGO Roberto Cosci APS, the social club of employees of EGO and members of the Virgo Collaboration, was officially opened. In addition to the CRAL council members, CRAL associates and partner associations, the…

The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration published today a new catalog of gravitational wave events. A total of 161 events, detected between April 2024 and the end of January 2025, have been added to the collection, bringing the total number of gravitational wave signals…

The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) detector network has a new trick up its sleeve to improve the instruments’ sensitivity to gravitational waves: it’s called Astrophysical Calibration and it plays a role similar to auto-tune in music production. When a gravitational wave…