News - EGO - European Gravitational Observatory

Gravitational wave detectors can now ‘auto-tune’ their signals

The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) detector network has a new trick up its sleeve to improve the instruments’ sensitivity to gravitational waves: it’s called Astrophysical Calibration and it plays a role similar to auto-tune in music production. When a gravitational wave...

Gravitational wave research leads to a new patent for space travel

[April Fools’ Day! this post was an April Fools’ Day joke, the warp drive remains science fiction for now, but gravitational wave science will continue to let us explore the universe through present and future detectors.] A new patent has emerged from research into...

Previous EGO-Virgo News

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.