News Release • November 18, 2021
Monday 22 November 2021, at 10:00AM US Eastern
News Release • November 15, 2021
An update from LIGO, Virgo and Kagra on the next observing run.
News Release • November 7, 2021
The largest catalog of GW events to date is released, along with bulk strain data from 2nd half of the O3 observing run.
News Release • October 18, 2021
Peter Fritschel (LIGO MIT) receives the 2022 Isaacson Award by APS.
News Release • August 17, 2021
A novel material developed by LIGO scientists would reduce thermal noise in mirror coatings by a factor of two, paving the way to the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors.
News Release • July 16, 2021
LVK observing plans, July 2021 update
News Release • June 29, 2021
An LVK webinar to discuss results from the collaboration's paper entitled “Gravitational waves from neutron star-black hole coalescences”, published 29 June 2021.
LVK scientists capture two NSBH merger events 10 days apart in January 2020.
News Release • May 24, 2021
Watch a video of the webinar.
News Release • April 17, 2021
LIGO/Virgo release latest data to the public
News Release • February 2, 2021
An online LVK webinar entitled “Constraining astrophysical and cosmological gravitational-wave backgrounds with Advanced LIGO and Virgo's 3rd observing run.”
News Release • January 22, 2021
IEEE to bestow the Milestone awards to the gravitational-wave observatories of LIGO and Virgo.
News Release • November 23, 2020
Siddharth Soni (Louisiana State University) is the winner of the 2020 Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration.
News Release • November 17, 2020
News Release • November 16, 2020
3rd LIGO/Virgo webinar on the latest results from the 1st half of the 3rd Observing Run
News Release • November 10, 2020
2nd LIGO/Virgo webinar on the latest results from the 1st half of the 3rd Observing Run
News Release • November 2, 2020
LIGO-Virgo webinar (1 of 3) to discuss the GWTC-2 results
News Release • October 28, 2020
LIGO/Virgo release second Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-2)
News Release • October 23, 2020
News Release • September 14, 2020
Staff remember that historic day, and reflect on what's happened since then.
News Release • September 11, 2020
News Release • September 2, 2020
GW190521, a binary black hole merger likely produced gravitational waves equal to the energy of eight suns.
News Release • September 1, 2020
On September 3rd, in a live webinar, the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra Collaboration will discuss the GW190521 results.
News Release • August 24, 2020
Some LIGO staff and engineers have returned to the sites to begin planned upgrades.
Feature Story • July 1, 2020
For the first time, a team led by researchers at LIGO MIT has measured the effects of quantum fluctuations on an object at the human scale.