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 Elisa Velcani | October 28, 2025 | Events, last each category, News, Past events
The craziest of endeavors, Virgo from the 80s to today EGO and Virgo open their doors to the public to celebrate together the 10th anniversary of the discovery of gravitational waves! On Tuesday, November 4 at 4:30 PM, join us at the EGO Auditorium for a special event...
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 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...
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 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...
