by Guglielmo Rossi | August 27, 2025 | last each category, News
Goodbye Rai Weiss We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Rainer Weiss, one of the fathers of gravitational wave research, founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Nobel Prize laureate in physics for the detection of...
by Guglielmo Rossi | August 26, 2025 | last each category, News
GWTC-4.0: Updated Gravitational Wave Catalog Released August 26th 2025 marks an important date for the international LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) gravitational-wave network. The collaborations are releasing the interferometric strain data from the first part of the...
by Guglielmo Rossi | July 14, 2025 | last each category, News
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has announced the detection of the merger of the most massive black holes ever...
by Guglielmo Rossi | April 11, 2025 | last each category, News
Virgo awarded the prize of the Festa di Scienza e di Filosofia Today in Foligno during the 14th edition of “Festa di Scienza e di Filosofia – Virtute e Canoscenza” the LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA Collaboration received an award in celebration of...
by Guglielmo Rossi | April 4, 2025 | Press Reviews
Belgium joins the EGO consortium – Press Review Web: Satellite Evolution – Belgium is the fourth European country to join the EGO consortiumhttps://www.satelliteevolution.com/post/belgium-is-the-fourth-european-country-to-join-the-ego-consortium ...
by Guglielmo Rossi | April 1, 2025 | last each category, News
300 balloons to celebrate 10 years of gravitational wave detection [ Edit: April Fools’ Day! This post was an April Fool’s joke, thank you for having fun with us 🥳 Although we didn’t install 300 balloons on Virgo’s arms this year we will indeed...
by Guglielmo Rossi | March 20, 2025 | last each category, News
Record detection of 200 gravitational waves in the current run of LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA The international network of the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave observatories just announced the detection of their 200th candidate gravitational wave signal in this...
by Guglielmo Rossi | March 19, 2025 | last each category, News
Belgium is the fourth European country to join the EGO consortium The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) continues to grow: today the Belgian research foundations FWO and FNRS joined the EGO consortium, the institution that hosts the Virgo gravitational wave...
by Guglielmo Rossi | March 7, 2025 | Events, last each category, Past events
A new space dedicated to gravitational waves at Infini.to – Planetarium of Turin On Saturday 8 March, Infini.to – Planetarium of Turin will inaugurate a new space dedicated to gravitational waves, created by Infini.to, in collaboration with the Scientific...
by Guglielmo Rossi | February 27, 2025 | AHEAD2020, last each category, News
EGO team develops robot array to fight newtonian noise Robots, monitoring of seismic activity and gravitational wave detectors: three topics of cutting-edge science that come together through the Flexible Grid Mapping Tool (FGMT), developed at the European...