by Guglielmo Rossi | February 12, 2026 | last each category, News
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...
by Guglielmo Rossi | January 30, 2026 | last each category, News
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...
by Guglielmo Rossi | January 28, 2026 | last each category, News
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...
by Guglielmo Rossi | December 17, 2025 | last each category, News
EGO and Virgo reorganize and create the VirgoLab The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), the institution that hosts the Virgo detector near Pisa (Italy), and the Virgo Collaboration have been undergoing a reorganization to tackle the new challenges of...
by Guglielmo Rossi | November 18, 2025 | last each category, News
LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA complete the richest observation run to date Today the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration announces the completion of the fourth observation campaign (called O4) of the international network of gravitational wave detectors. Launched in...
by Guglielmo Rossi | October 28, 2025 | last each category, News
LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA observed “second generation” black holes for the first time A pair of very special black hole mergers, detected just one month apart in late 2024, is improving how scientists understand the nature and evolution of the most violent deep-space...
by Guglielmo Rossi | September 13, 2025 | last each category, News
Ten years of gravitational waves On September 14th 2015, ten years ago, a signal arrived on Earth that was generated by a pair of black holes. After spiralling around each other at impressive speeds, they had merged, releasing an enormous amount of energy. To reach...
by Guglielmo Rossi | September 10, 2025 | last each category, News
Ten years after the discovery, gravitational waves verify Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Area Theorem LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA celebrate the anniversary of the first gravitational waves detection and announce verification of Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Area...
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...
