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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Berrie Giebels passed away at 52

Berrie Giebels passed away at 52

It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of former EGO Council president Berrie Giebels, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 52, after a year-long battle with cancer. From...

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Winners of the Virgo Awards 2023 announced

Winners of the Virgo Awards 2023 announced

Young researchers Yuefan Guo (Maastricht University), Kamiel Janssens (University of Antwerp) and Alba Romero-Rodriguez (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) are the winners of the third edition of the Virgo...

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Virgo will join O4 early 2024

Virgo will join O4 early 2024

The Virgo Collaboration updated the scientific community last week on the progress of the Virgo detector commissioning, in view of joining the fourth observing run (O4) already undertaken by the two...

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