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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...
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...
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...
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 the tenth anniversary...
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 celebrate the 10th...
1,500 students from around the world visit Virgo remotely with PICO project
As part of the EU-funded PICO (PhysICs fOr all) project, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in Cascina, Italy, organised three remote guided tours of the Virgo gravitational wave detector...
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