Record detection of 200 gravitational waves in the current run of LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA

The international network of the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave observatories just announced the detection of their 200th candidate gravitational wave signal in this fourth observation period (O4), which is still ongoing. The signal came on March 19th 2025...

Belgium is the fourth European country to join the EGO consortium

The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) continues to grow: today the Belgian research foundations FWO and FNRS joined the EGO consortium, the institution that hosts the Virgo gravitational wave detector in the countryside of Cascina, near Pisa, Italy. The...

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Winners of the Virgo Award 2024 announced

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Young researchers Mattia Boldrini (researcher at the Roma section of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics – INFN) and Enzo Tapia San Martín (researcher at the Dutch National Institute...

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AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 8

AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 8

 The AHEAD2020 (Integrated Activities for High Energy Astrophysics*) calls for transnational access proposals in the Computational Astrophysics domain The main objectives are: This TNA will provide...

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