Italy and France celebrate the era of gravitational waves at Palazzo Farnese in Rome

 Ten years of Virgo science and the future prospects of a new way to explore the universe "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger": this is the title of the article published ten years ago in Physical Review Letters by the LIGO and Virgo...

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Einstein is still right, relativity passes the gravitational wave test (for now)

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration published a new, more accurate, test of Einstein’s theory of general relativity using their clearest gravitational wave signal yet: GW250114. In all tests, the observations match the theory’s predictions.  Since its publication, over...

Goodbye Antonella

EGO and the entire Virgo Collaboration mourn the loss of Antonella Bozzi, a key figure for Virgo since its construction. She joined EGO in 2001 and, since 2009, had been head of the IT Department, which manages the computing, storage and network systems at EGO and...
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