News - EGO - European Gravitational Observatory

Virgo’s virtual tour returns with Pico New Horizons project

On Thursday 24 September, remote guided tours of Virgo will resume as part of the PICO New Horizons project, funded by the European Union. This initiative was previously carried out successfully as part of the earlier PICO (PhysICs fOr all) project, thanks to which as…

EGO and Virgo are taking part in the European Researchers Night with Bright Night and PICO

We’ll be announcing all the upcoming events shortly, but in the meantime: The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in Cascina, home to the Virgo interferometer, will take part on September 25th in the European Researchers’ Night, an initiative promoted by the…

EGO and Virgo at Bright Night, European Researchers Night

Sep 21, 2021

Research takes to the streets of Tuscany’s cities with talks, demonstrations and events. It will happen on Friday 24 September, for the BRIGHT Night European Researchers’ Night, an event – created…

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle

Sep 17, 2021

EDIT: THE EVENT WAS POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 1ST AT 9 PM A special evening under the stars of Virgo to discover Dante’s cosmos and how we listen to and narrate the Universe today, in the unique…

Einstein Telescope at the Venice Biennale

Sep 10, 2021

The project to turn the Sos Enattos disused mine in Sardinia into the new home of Einstein Telescope is the protagonist of one of the installations of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale….

Cascina meets Virgo

Sep 1, 2021

On Wednesday September 1st at 9 p.m., at the Banca di Pescia e Cascina, the panel Cascina incontra Virgo (Cascina meets Virgo) will be held, the last in the cycle of events Cascina Europa, organised…

Dirac Medals 2021 awarded for key work in gravitational wave physics

Aug 10, 2021

ICTP (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics) just awarded its 2021 Dirac Medal and Prize to four physicists whose theoretical work underpinned the 2015 first detection of…