News - EGO - European Gravitational Observatory

Ten years after the discovery, gravitational waves verify Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Area Theorem

LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA celebrate the anniversary of the first gravitational waves detection and announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem. On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes...

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 Nobel Prize laureate in physics for the detection of gravitational waves....

Infrastructures councillor of Tuscany Stefano Baccelli visits Virgo

Mar 2, 2022

This morning the European Gravitational Observatory in Cascina (EGO) hosted a visit by the Regional Councillor for Infrastructure and Transport of Tuscany, Stefano Baccelli, with a significant...

Hunting for gravitational waves with a new citizen science app

Feb 2, 2022

Ego Virgo and UniPi launch a platform open to all to analyse data from the Universe The European Gravitational Observatory of Cascina (PI) and the University of Pisa are launching GWitchHunters,...

Low-latency alerts & Data analysis for Multi-messenger Astrophysics workshop

Jan 10, 2022

A workshop on "Low-latency alerts & Data analysis for Multi-messenger Astrophysics" will be organized online on January 13th and 14th. The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of the...

Four gravitational wave projects among the Prin 2021

Dec 21, 2021

Four “scientific projects of major national interest”, the so-called "Prin", funded by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research for 2021, concern the study and astronomical research linked...

The United Nations promulge The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, EGO in the steering committee

Dec 3, 2021

The UN General Assembly proclaimed yesterday 2022 the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, following a resolution adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in November...

Awarded to Ilaria Nardecchia the Virgo Award 2021

Nov 18, 2021

Ilaria Nardecchia, a researcher of the Virgo and INFN groups of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, is the winner of the first edition of the Virgo Award, assigned by the international Virgo...