LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Official account of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. We detect gravitational waves!
Email: questions@ligo.org
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Happy birthday to #GW250114 our loudest detection to date! In this video, @drbecky.bsky.social explains how we used the signal to test one of Hawking's fundamental ideas about black holes www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fLO... 🧪⚛️🔭
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- "Taking care of plants is my way to do hands-on science every day and remember that science is actually part of the real world, it doesn't just exist on your computer." Find out more about Amanda at #HumansOfLIGO: humansofligo.blogspot.com/2025/12/aman... 🧪🔭
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- 2015 was a good year for gravitational-wave astronomy 🔭🧪🛰️ #LPF10anniversary #GW10Years
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- The 2025 winner of the LIGO Laboratory Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization & Calibration is Dr. Jane Glanzer in recognizition of critical and timely contributions to both calibration and detector characterization for the fourth observing run www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA/news/ligo...
- Our recent low-significance candidate #S251112cm has caught some interest. A false alarm or a big discovery—we will keep investigating. Catch up in these two articles www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho www.iflscience.com/candidate-gr... by @drcarpineti.bsky.social 🔭🧪☄️⚛️
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run has now drawn to a close. We will be busy analysing data for a while to come—watch out for more discovery announcements. We will be back next year observing.docs.ligo.org/plan/
- In half an hour!
- Our next webinar will introduce our latest #GWTC4 release and the associated data (papers arxiv.org/abs/2508.18080 and arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079) Tomorrow at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Free registration wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... ☄️🔭
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Our next webinar will introduce our latest #GWTC4 release and the associated data (papers arxiv.org/abs/2508.18080 and arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079) Tomorrow at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Free registration wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... ☄️🔭
- Congratulations to Patrick for being honored by the American Physical Society! Prof. Brady is a long-standing member of our collaboration and our former Spokersperson
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- 🔭Our fourth observing run is due to end on November 18. However, we now expect to have a 6 month observing run in 2026–27 to begin in the late summer/early fall of 2026, with detectors participating as available observing.docs.ligo.org/plan/ ☄️🧪⚛️
- A Halloween visitor!
- We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110 Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger? ligo.org/science-summ... #O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️☄️
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Count down the top 10 breakthroughs in the 10 years since our first detection with @space.com. Do you agree with their picks? www.space.com/astronomy/li... by @robleascijorno.bsky.social #GW10Years 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪
- Yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day #APOD featured #GW250114! This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat as two black holes spiral together on their way toward producing the strongest gravitational-wave signal we've detected so far apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25092... 🎨A Simonnet 🔭🐚
- Last Sunday was the 10th anniversary of our first #GravitationalWave detection! Join us for a thread of celebratory cakes enjoyed by members of our collaboration First, a cake from @ozgrav.bsky.social Looks like plenty to share? 🖼️: J Powell 🧵🎂 #GW10Years
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- “With an idea that the impossible is often possible if you work hard at it. What we do here is thought to be impossible for many decades” Our own @giaime.net talks to @wafb.com about our 10th anniversary www.wafb.com/2025/09/15/f... by Liam Combs #GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- A decade of detecting gravitational waves: The Naked Scientists podcast catch up on the current status of gravitational-wave astronomy and future plans, including an interview with Prof. Gaby Gonzalez www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak... #GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️
- During the recent LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA meeting, the 2024 winner of the LIGO Laboratory Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration, Louis Dartez, received his honorary Calibration Wizard hat. Congratulations to Dr. Dartez! www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/award-e...
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- The New York Times shares celebrations of our 10 year anniversary, and the challenges ahead, with memories of Rai Weiss and our clearest detection #GW250114 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/s... by Dennis Overbye #GW10Years 🔭 🧪 ⚛️ ☄️
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific CollaborationHappy birthday GW150914! When you were detected I was still an undergrad looking to get into GWs for her PhD (it's important to my internal story of myself that I wanted to do this *before* the detection) It's hard to believe how far we've come since then. 🐡🧪🔭 #GW10Years
- Back from September 2015, this month in Physics history: Detection of waves emitted by colliding binary black holes opened a new era in astrophysics and proved that Einstein was right www.aps.org/apsnews/2025... by Katherine Bourzac #GW10Years 🧪⚛️🔭
- Look back at our first discoveries with the award-winning LIGO documentary by @lesguthman.bsky.social youtu.be/dX4vCNi544w #GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️
- Reposted by LIGO Scientific Collaboration[Not loaded yet]
- A timeline of GW150914. A story that begins a billion years ago and ends with our first #GravitationalWave detection 10 years ago today Discover more in the @ligomagazine.bsky.social ligo.org/wp-content/u... #GW10Years ⚛️🧪🔭
