Press Releases

Notable press releases, listed in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent

2021	June 29	LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Finds Elusive Mergers of Black Holes with Neutron Stars
2020	September 2	A “bang” in LIGO and Virgo Detectors Signals Most Massive Gravitational-Wave Source Yet
2020	June 23	LIGO-Virgo Finds Mystery Object in "Mass Gap"
2020	January 6	LIGO-Virgo Network Catches Another Neutron Star Collision
2019	May 5	LIGO and Virgo Detect Neutron Star Smash-Ups
2018	December 3	LIGO and Virgo Announce Four New Detections, Release O1-O2 Catalog
2017	October 16	GW170817 LIGO and Virgo Make First Detection of Gravitational Waves Produced by Colliding Neutron Stars
2017	October 3	2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to LIGO Founders
2017	August 14	GW170814 Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Merger Observed by LIGO and Virgo
2017	June 1	GW170104 L IGO Detects Gravitational Waves for Third Time: Res ults confirm new population of black holes
2016	June 15	GW151226 G ravitational Waves Detected from Second Pair of Colliding Black Holes
2016	February 11	GW150914 Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction