News - EGO - European Gravitational Observatory

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 ever observed with gravitational waves, using the US National Science...

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 of the first gravitational wave detection. "The prize, instituted by...

Previous EGO-Virgo News

Quantum effects make Virgo’s mirrors jitter

Sep 24, 2020

A quantum mechanical effect measured for the first time in the Advanced Virgo and LIGO gravitational-wave detectors

Virgo data to study climate change and the sea

Sep 11, 2020

An agreement among the University of Pisa, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) and the scientific collaboration for the sharing of data on wave motion in the Tyrrhenian Sea.