Virgo is a Gravitational Wave detector, hosted by the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), near Pisa, Italy.
EGO and the Virgo Collaboration
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increasingly precise tests of general relativity under the extreme physical conditions of the phenomena we observe, and the development of new methods to obtain ever more accurate estimates of the Hubble constant. It is a scenario that not many people would have bet on just ten years ago.”
said Ed Porter, researcher at the Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC) of @cnrs.fr “Today, gravitational wave studies make possible analyses that were previously unimaginable: investigations into black hole populations,
“This ever-growing wealth of data, which an entire community of scientists and astronomers is working to analyze and study, has taken us from the era of initial discoveries into that of precision gravitational astronomy.”
and evidence for the existence of second-generation black holes. A wealth of results that marks the coming of age of gravitational astronomy.
🏅 The new catalog includes several detections that are themselves exceptional and sets new records in gravitational-wave astronomy observations: the best sky localization ever achieved for a gravitational wave source, the clearest gravitational wave signal ever recorded
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 🤯
