News - EGO - European Gravitational Observatory

Black holes and gravitational waves in the cosmic concert by Tomàs Saraceno

On the evening of December 31, Tomas Saraceno proposes to greet the arrival of the new year with an installation in Rome and a cosmic concert, which can be heard anywhere, in the context of the end of year festivities of the city of Rome (https://oltretutto.roma.it/)....

Hunting for continuous emission of gravitational waves from neutron stars

While Virgo and LIGO have been undergoing upgrades, the data from the early part of the third observing run of the detectors (from April to September, 2019), have been analysed by researchers to look for signs of continuous emission of gravitational waves from rapidly spinning neutron stars. This makes it possible to set new, clear constraints for future searches.

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EGO turns 20!

Dec 11, 2020

EGO turns 20! On December 11th, 2000, INFN and CNRS founded the European Gravitational Observatory, giving a home to the pioneering Virgo detector.

Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing-period postponed

Dec 9, 2020

The LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA collaborations have declared that, mainly because of COVID-related issues, the fourth observation period, known as 'O4', will not begin before June, 2022. The three...

Over 100 black holes detected by Virgo and LIGO in the first run of 2019

Oct 29, 2020

The classification and definitive analysis of the 39 events detected by Virgo and LIGO in the third observation period (which ran from April to October 2019) was published today on the ArXiv online archive.

The REINFORCE project: citizen science to study the Universe

Oct 14, 2020

A citizen-science project focussing on the study of the cosmos, in which everyone is called to provide a contribution to the study of gravitational waves, particles and light

INFN and CNRS renew the EGO consortium

Oct 13, 2020

EGO, the European Gravitational Observatory was created 20 years ago (11 December 2000) by the CNRS, a French public, scientific and technological institution, and the Italian INFN.