News - EGO - European Gravitational Observatory

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...

Marie Anne Bizouard elected as spokesperson of Virgo: she will be the first woman in this role

Marie Anne Bizouard, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Nice, has been elected as the new spokesperson for the Virgo scientific collaboration, with effect on May 3rd. She is the first woman appointed in this role, since the...

Previous EGO-Virgo News

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...

GW190425

Jan 6, 2020

the merger of a compact binary with total mass of about 3.4 Msun

O3 restarts

Nov 4, 2019

O3 will now run with no further interruptions until the 30th of April, 2020

VIRGO, LIGO and KAGRA sign agreement to begin joint observation

Oct 4, 2019

which includes the joint observation of gravitational waves and the sharing of data over the coming years, while it also foresees the expansion of the collaboration through the welcoming of new partners in the future.