News - EGO - European Gravitational Observatory

EGO and Virgo reorganize and create the VirgoLab

The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), the institution that hosts the Virgo detector near Pisa (Italy), and the Virgo Collaboration have been undergoing a reorganization to tackle the new challenges of gravitational and multimessenger astronomy. As part of this...

LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA complete the richest observation run to date

Today the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration announces the completion of the fourth observation campaign (called O4) of the international network of gravitational wave detectors. Launched in May 2023, the campaign ends today after a period of coordinated...

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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.

2020 Nobel Prize goes to discoveries about Black Holes

Oct 6, 2020

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez

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.