29 September 2017
Virgo and LIGO detect fourth gravitational wave signal
Using a network of three interferometers instead of two, the LIGO team and the Virgo Collaboration jointly report that a fourth confirmed detection of a binary black hole merger has been recorded. It is the first ...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
...to approximately 1.99 × 1030 kilograms). This recent event captured by LIGO and Virgo, known as GW170817, is not only significant because of the subjects that ...paper containing the collaborative work of 70 observatories and hundreds of astronomers around the ...
08 November 2021
Latest gravitational wave catalogue details 35 new detections
... ever found. As of 7 November, when the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration released the results of events observed between November 2019 and March...below about 5 solar masses. So which is it? The collaboration are still not sure, but it could mean that ...