Congratulations to Francis Halzen, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to @icecubeneutrino.bsky.social and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin” 🧊
EGO and the Virgo Collaboration
@egovirgo.bsky.social
Virgo is a Gravitational Wave detector, hosted by the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), near Pisa, Italy.
EGO’s technical deputy director, Franco Carbognani, accepted the Frontiers of Science Award in Physics on behalf of the Virgo Collaboration, during the International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing, China.
Exactly nine years ago LIGO and Virgo detected a signal that would change astronomy forever: their first ever neutron star merger, GW170817 💥 Why was this observation so revolutionary? 🧐
Researchers of the LIGO - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration have just published an article in which they put Einstein’s theory of general relativity to the test (again!) 🔎
Our next LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA webinar will explain cosmological measurements using our #GWTC5 results (paper arxiv.org/abs/2605.27227) 16 July at 14:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Register for free wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🔭 ☄️ ⚛️ 🧪
Our next LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA webinar will our latest #GWTC5 catalog (science summary ligo.org/science-summ...) 9 July at 14:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Register wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🔭🧪⚛️☄️
Can you guess what this green light is? 👀
The @ligo.org – Virgo – KAGRA Collaboration published today a new catalog of gravitational wave events that adds 161 events to the collection, bringing the total number of gravitational wave signals detected to date to 390 🤯
In a paper published today the @ligo.org – Virgo – KAGRA (LVK) detector network describes a new trick up its sleeve to improve the instruments’ sensitivity to gravitational waves: it’s called Astrophysical Calibration and it plays a role similar to auto-tune in music production 🎵
Today is World Art Day, created by UNESCO 🎨 In recent years, we have fostered dialogue between the field of gravitational-wave science and contemporary art, welcoming many artists who have visited Virgo and created works and projects inspired by our themes ✨ 📷Artwork by Pedro Torres
3,000 students from all over the world have visited Virgo remotely during this school year 🤯 This was made possible by the guided tours organised as part of the European project PICO – Physics for All by EGO, with the support of Ellinogermaniki Agogi.
The European Union has approved funding of approximately €350,000 for the PICO – New Horizons project through the MSCA and Citizens 2025 call! (1/6)
April Fools’ Day 🐟 this post was an April Fools’ Day joke, the warp drive remains science fiction for now, but gravitational wave science will continue to let us explore the universe through present and future detectors 🌌
EGO and the Virgo Collaboration@egovirgo.bsky.social · 6mo agoA new patent, filed by the European Gravitational Observatory, will turn the warp drive – the technology that allows the starships in Star Trek to travel faster than the speed of light – into reality 🚀
A new patent, filed by the European Gravitational Observatory, will turn the warp drive – the technology that allows the starships in Star Trek to travel faster than the speed of light – into reality 🚀
Why is the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA meeting so important? Why do people from all over the world travel to meet in person? Let’s hear it from the participants of the meeting that took place in Pisa this month 🗺️
We are happy to announce that Marie Anne Bizouard, researcher at @cnrs.fr in Nice, has been elected as the new spokesperson for the Virgo Collaboration, with effect on May 3rd. She is the first woman appointed in this role, since the Collaboration foundation in the late 1980s.
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Alain Brillet, French physicist, who has been one of the founding fathers of gravitational interferometry and Virgo, along with Adalberto Giazotto, who left us in 2017.
We pay tribute to Andrzej Trautman, one of the pioneers of gravitational wave theory and a leading figure in mathematical relativity, who passed away at the age of 93.
🇵🇱 This week the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Rome hosted the Gravitational Waves and Detection Technologies - PAS Rome meeting 2026, jointly organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Perugia and INFN Perugia, and supported by CAOS and EGO.
We’re happy to be hosting at EGO this week a group of @cern.bsky.social engineers working on @einsteintelescope.bsky.social, the future third generation gravitational wave detector, within the collaboration with the Einstein Telescope Organization (ETO).
Last week over 400 scientists of the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration met in Pisa, Italy for the LVK Meeting, the biannual gathering of the global community studying gravitational waves 🌟🌍
📢 The international network of gravitational wave detectors LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) announces the publication of an updated catalogue of all gravitational events observed up to January 2024, called Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue-4.0 (GWTC-4).
From March 9th to March 13th, Pisa will be home to the global gravitational waves community! EGO and Virgo will host the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration Meeting, the biannual meeting of the gravitational wave community, for the first time in Italy after more than a decade.
🧐 How many theories can be verified with a single #GravitationalWave signal? At least three, if this signal is GW250114, observed by the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration in January 2025. #10yearsofGravitationalWaves #GW10
🍂 What if a black hole born from the merger of two black holes merged with another black hole? We may find out thanks to gravitational waves, such as those observed by the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration in autumn 2024. Let's learn about these signals!
Yesterday at the Planetarium of Rome, on the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves, the film for planetariums "Einstein Telescope, listening to the universe beyond the stars" was screened for the first time.
Yesterday at Palazzo Farnese in Rome, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves with an event organised by the Italian Ministry for University and Research, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), @cnrs.fr and EGO (more below)
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science ♀️ Change is possible and is already happening, but there is still a lot to do, here’s some data to help us understand!
Not all black holes observed in 10 years of #GravitationalWaves were predicted by theoretical models. This is the case for two signals observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in 2019 and 2023. Let's find out more!
