News - EGO - European Gravitational Observatory

LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA observed “second generation” black holes for the first time

A pair of very special black hole mergers, detected just one month apart in late 2024, is improving how scientists understand the nature and evolution of the most violent deep-space collisions in our universe. Some features of these mergers point toward the...

Ten years of gravitational waves

On September 14th 2015, ten years ago, a signal arrived on Earth that was generated by a pair of black holes. After spiralling around each other at impressive speeds, they had merged, releasing an enormous amount of energy. To reach us, the signal had travelled some...

Phase I of the upgrades to Advanced Virgo + completed

May 5, 2021

Researchers from IFAE-Barcelona installing the instrumented baffle at VirgoTen months after the beginning of the upgrade to Advanced Virgo+, Phase I of the installation is completed. "Despite...

Al via le selezioni di Famelab Pisa 2021

Apr 29, 2021

Al via la selezione dei due rappresentanti “toscani” dell’edizione 2021 di FameLab, il talent show internazionale della divulgazione scientifica. I due vincitori parteciperanno alla finale nazionale...

Roadmap for the future of gravitational-wave research published in Nature

Apr 15, 2021

.In the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature, a roadmap dedicated to the future of gravitational wave research has been published. This is a field of research that promises to continue to...

IEEE Milestone of science and technology
For Virgo and LIGO

Feb 4, 2021

“The scientific endeavour of the detection of gravitational waves and of Virgo is an extraordinary story – said Stavros Katsanevas, Director of EGO – European Gravitational Observatory – in which...

Milestone IEEE della scienza e della tecnologia
Per Virgo e LIGO

Feb 4, 2021

“L’impresa scientifica della rivelazione delle onde gravitazionali e di Virgo è una storia straordinaria – ha dichiarato Stavros Katsanevas, direttore dell’Osservatorio Gravitazionale Europeo – EGO...

Hunting for continuous emission of gravitational waves from neutron stars

Dec 28, 2020

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.