November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
... new angle The clusters facilitate communication between member organisations, making it easier to pool complementary resources for collaborative projects and shared risk, as well as providing common support services at scale, and therefore more cost...
29 September 2017
Virgo and LIGO detect fourth gravitational wave signal
... the first discovery made in partnership between the Virgo Gravitational-Wave Observatory and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the first time a gravitational-wave detection was observed by these observatories, located thousands of miles apart. This...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
.... This unprecedented discovery is the subject of five Nature papers and one Nature Astronomy paper containing the collaborative work of 70 observatories and hundreds of astronomers around the world.
27 January 2017
Distant quasars help refine the rate of the expanding Universe
The rate of the expansion of the Universe is a hotly debated subject and now a new measurement by the H0LiCOW collaboration using gravitationally-lensed quasars, contradicts that made using other methods and the discrepancy could hint at "...
September 2018
ROOM helps raise student space awareness
...event in 2016, students from the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, in collaboration with ROOM – The Space Journal, took part in the second highly popular joint project to raise awareness...
25 November 2016
New search shows no link between gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts
... colliding black holes nearly 1.3 billion light years away that were detected by members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). Established in 1997, the LSC is currently made up of more than 1000 scientists from dozens of institutions and...
