Over 100 black holes detected by Virgo and LIGO in the first run of 2019
The classification and definitive analysis of the 39 events detected by Virgo and LIGO in the third observation period (which ran from April to October 2019) was published today on the ArXiv online archive.
The REINFORCE project: citizen science to study the Universe
A citizen-science project focussing on the study of the cosmos, in which everyone is called to provide a contribution to the study of gravitational waves, particles and light
INFN and CNRS renew the EGO consortium
EGO, the European Gravitational Observatory was created 20 years ago (11 December 2000) by the CNRS, a French public, scientific and technological institution, and the Italian INFN.
2020 Nobel Prize goes to discoveries about Black Holes
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
Quantum effects make Virgo’s mirrors jitter
A quantum mechanical effect measured for the first time in the Advanced Virgo and LIGO gravitational-wave detectors
Virgo data to study climate change and the sea
An agreement among the University of Pisa, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) and the scientific collaboration for the sharing of data on wave motion in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
GW190521
The most massive black hole ever detected with gravitational waves!
GW190814
The merger of a 23-solar-mass black-hole and an enigmatic lighter object
GW190412
The merger of two black holes with unequal masses