by Guglielmo Rossi | March 11, 2026 | last each category, News
The LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA gravitational wave community meeting in Italy again after 15 years This week (9-13 March) the global gravitational wave community conference, the LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration Meeting, is taking place in...
by Guglielmo Rossi | March 5, 2026 | last each category, News
A kaleidoscope of cosmic collisions: the new catalogue of gravitational signals from LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA The catalogue of all the new 128 events observed by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA from May 2023 to January 2024 is being published. It reveals an even greater variety of...
by Guglielmo Rossi | March 3, 2026 | last each category, News
Goodbye Andrzej Trautman We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Andrzej Trautman, one of the pioneers of gravitational wave theory and a leading figure in mathematical relativity, who died on February 27, 2026 at the age of 93. In 1958, as a young...
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 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...
