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Two instrumented baffles installed in Virgo by IFAE Barcelona

Two large instrumented baffles designed and built by researchers and engineers from IFAE have been successfully installed in the arms of the Virgo detector. The installation marks an important milestone in the ongoing upgrade of the observatory ahead of the next…

The CRAL EGO-Virgo “Roberto Cosci” APS inaugurates its new space

Yesterday, Thursday 28 May, the new space of the CRAL EGO-VIRGO Roberto Cosci APS, the social club of employees of EGO and members of the Virgo Collaboration, was officially opened. In addition to the CRAL council members, CRAL associates and partner associations, the…

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…

A binary neutron star system just before merger: the two stars are deformed by tidal forces and are about to fuse together. The image is produced by a numerical simulation in General Relativity (animation) and shows the mass density volume rendering at nuclear densities in blue and lower density material in red. The snapshot refers to the central volume of approximately 45 km in diameter. Image credit: CoRe / Jena FSU

GW190425

Jan 6, 2020

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

Scientist at work in the Advanced Virgo detection area, investigating noise caused by scattered light. The pipes in the picture have been temporarily equipped with monitoring accelerometers and actuators in order to perform diagnostic measurements Virgo laser source. Image credit: EGO/Virgo Collaboration/Francescon

O3 restarts

Nov 4, 2019

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

Il ritmo dello spazio

Oct 31, 2019

October 12 – December 8, 2019

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.