35 new spacetime quakes detected by Virgo and LIGO
35 new spacetime quakes detected by Virgo and LIGO 35 new events detected by LIGO and Virgo in their latest observation period bring to 90 the gravitational waves detected so far. These events are spacetime quakes generated by the mergers of either two black holes or...
Dirac Medals 2021 awarded for key work in gravitational wave physics
Dirac Medals 2021 awarded for key work in gravitational wave physics ICTP (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics) just awarded its 2021 Dirac Medal and Prize to four physicists whose theoretical work underpinned the 2015 first detection of...
Program of scientific visits and remote access activities by AHEAD2020
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
Einstein Telescope included in ESFRI Roadmap 2021
Einstein Telescope included in ESFRI Roadmap 2021 Einstein Telescope, the proposed European third-generation gravitational wave detector, is now included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2021. ESFRI is the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures that aims to develop...
Virgo and LIGO discover black hole and neutron star pairs
Virgo and LIGO discover black hole and neutron star pairs Virgo, LIGO and KAGRA add another missing piece to our knowledge of extreme cosmic phenomena: the first direct observation of pairs consisting of a black hole and a neutron star. This represents a completely...
Ornella Juliana Piccinni wins the L’Oréal-Unesco Award “For Women and Science” 2021
Ornella Juliana Piccinni wins the L’Oréal-Unesco Award “For Women and Science” 2021 Today June 17th, during an online event, the names of the winners of the Italian edition of the L’Oréal-Unesco Award “For Women and Science” 2021...
Announcing the Virgo Award, a yearly prize for Early Career Virgo Members
Announcing the Virgo Award, a yearly prize for Early Career Virgo Members The Virgo Collaboration is pleased to announce the Virgo Award: a prize that will be awarded annually to Early Career Virgo Members who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the...
French Ambassador to Italy, Christian Masset, will visit EGO and Virgo
French Ambassador to Italy, Christian Masset, will visit EGO and Virgo On Thursday May 27th and Friday May 28th, during a visit to Pisa, French Ambassador to Italy Christian Masset will pay an official visit to a number of academic and research institutions in the...