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

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...

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.