News - EGO - European Gravitational Observatory

Einstein is still right, relativity passes the gravitational wave test (for now)

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration published a new, more accurate, test of Einstein’s theory of general relativity using their clearest gravitational wave signal yet: GW250114. In all tests, the observations match the theory’s predictions. Since its publication, over...

Goodbye Antonella

EGO and the entire Virgo Collaboration mourn the loss of Antonella Bozzi, a key figure for Virgo since its construction. She joined EGO in 2001 and, since 2009, had been head of the IT Department, which manages the computing, storage and network systems at EGO and...

Previous EGO-Virgo News

GW190521

Sep 2, 2020

The most massive black hole ever detected with gravitational waves!

GW190814

Jun 23, 2020

The merger of a 23-solar-mass black-hole and an enigmatic lighter object

GW190412

May 18, 2020

The merger of two black holes with unequal masses

Virgo new spokesperson

Apr 18, 2020

Giovanni Losurdo is the new Spokesperson of the Virgo Collaboration

LIGO-Virgo O3 suspended

Mar 23, 2020

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration (the LVC) have agreed to suspend their third observation period, named O3, which has been running since the 1st of April, 2019. The...