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300 balloons to celebrate 10 years of gravitational wave detection
[ Edit: April Fools' Day! This post was an April Fool's joke, thank you for having fun with us 🥳 Although we didn't install 300 balloons on Virgo's arms this year we will indeed celebrate the 10th...
1,500 students from around the world visit Virgo remotely with PICO project
As part of the EU-funded PICO (PhysICs fOr all) project, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in Cascina, Italy, organised three remote guided tours of the Virgo gravitational wave detector...
Record detection of 200 gravitational waves in the current run of LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA
The international network of the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave observatories just announced the detection of their 200th candidate gravitational wave signal in this fourth observation...
Belgium is the fourth European country to join the EGO consortium
The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) continues to grow: today the Belgian research foundations FWO and FNRS joined the EGO consortium, the institution that hosts the Virgo gravitational wave...
EGO team develops robot array to fight newtonian noise
Robots, monitoring of seismic activity and gravitational wave detectors: three topics of cutting-edge science that come together through the Flexible Grid Mapping Tool (FGMT), developed at the...
LVK announces an update of the observing schedule
As the third portion of the fourth observing run, O4c, is starting the LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA Collaboration is announcing an upcoming break from observing to dedicate some time to maintenance and...
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