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
Virgo new spokesperson
Giovanni Losurdo is the new Spokesperson of the Virgo Collaboration
LIGO-Virgo O3 suspended
LIGO-Virgo O3 suspended The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration (the LVC) have agreed to suspend their third observation period, named O3, which has been running since the 1st of April, 2019. The suspension, which will be effective within one...
GW190425
the merger of a compact binary with total mass of about 3.4 Msun
O3 restarts
O3 will now run with no further interruptions until the 30th of April, 2020