Italy and France celebrate the era of gravitational waves at Palazzo Farnese in Rome

 Ten years of Virgo science and the future prospects of a new way to explore the universe "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger": this is the title of the article published ten years ago in Physical Review Letters by the LIGO and Virgo...

Einstein is still right, relativity passes the gravitational wave test (for now)

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration published a new, more accurate, test of Einstein’s theory of general relativity using their clearest gravitational wave signal yet: GW250114. In all tests, the observations match the theory’s predictions.  Since its publication, over...

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AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 8

AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 8

 The AHEAD2020 (Integrated Activities for High Energy Astrophysics*) calls for transnational access proposals in the Computational Astrophysics domain The main objectives are: This TNA will provide...

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EGO joins EU project PICO

EGO joins EU project PICO

We are happy to announce that EGO is a partner of the newly launched European Project PICO  (PhysICs fOr all). The project aims to support all citizens to increase their awareness of fundamental,...

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1,000 visitors for EGO and Virgo Open Day!

1,000 visitors for EGO and Virgo Open Day!

All day last Friday, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in Cascina welcomed almost 1,000 visitors for the research centre's first big Open Day since the pandemic started. Workshops, games,...

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