LIGO

A boom in gravitational waves leaves scientists with more questions than answers: Scientific American reports how we still have much to discover after #GWTC4

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-do-hundreds-of-gravitational-wave-events-reveal-about-the-universe/ by K. R. Callaway

#Astrodon #Science

The universe is humming with ripples in spacetime

https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/the-universe-is-humming-with-ripples-in-spacetime-scientists-just-doubled-our-catalog-of-black-hole-and-neutron-star-collisions from @Spacecom@flipboard.com discusses our #GWTC4

#Astrodon

RE: @LIGO@scicomm.xyz

Later today!

Our next LIGO Virgo KAGRA webinar will introduce the analysis methods used for our #GWTC4 results (paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18081). If you you are curious about the techniques used for our discoveries please join!

19 February at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after

Register for free https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ey7T8h4hQzyagXE7kqsk2g#/registration

To convert UTC to your timezone you can use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20211206T150000&p1=137&p2=64&p3=179&p4=213&p5=90&p6=215&p7=111&p8=44&p9=33&p10=248&p11=152

#Astrodon #GravitationalWaves

Happy Valentine's Day to all gravitational-wave fans, and especially Virgo and KAGRA 💞💗💓

RE: @LIGO@scicomm.xyz

Our webinar is later today!

@schnedan@social.tchncs.de The LIGO Scientific Collaboration is made up of scientists from many countries, working together at institutions around the globe. We work hand-in-hand with Virgo and KAGRA, who are also wonderfully international. We are very proud of our history of working across borders together.

10 years ago today, our discovery paper was published in Physical Review Letters

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

It has gone on to be highly cited. But it has also had an impact outside of academia—its #Altmetric score is in the top 1000 of all papers ever

https://aps.altmetric.com/details/5333883#score

#GW10Years #OTD #OpenAccess

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#GW150914 birthday cakes enjoyed by our scientists. You can't make discoveries without an occasional sweet treat

#GW10Years

A delightful mini-documentary from our @UofGravity@mastodon.scot colleagues to celebrating the first decade of #GravitationalWave astronomy and the path ahead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqhFtkQ4f2c

#GW10Years #Astrodon #Science

What has happened in the 10 years since #GW150914?

@Spacecom@flipboard.com picks their top 10 discoveries. What are yours?

https://www.space.com/astronomy/ligo-legacy-10-incredible-gravitational-wave-breakthroughs-to-celebrate-observatorys-landmark-2015-find by
@RobertLea@qoto.org

#GW10Years #GravitationalWaves #GWTC4

Daniel Williams @daniel_williams@mastodon.scot joined our collaboration on 14 September 2015 at the start of his PhD. He shares his perspectives on the last decade and things to come

https://astronomersdiary.substack.com/p/celebrating-ten-years

#GW10Years #Academia #GravitationalWaves #Astrodon

RE: @LIGO@scicomm.xyz

The #LIGOMagazine celebrates 10 years since our first detection #GW150914 with their birthday issue

https://ligo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/LIGO-magazine-issue27.pdf

#GW10Years

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience! We are happy to share this online symposium organised by LIGO-India highlighting contributions from female scientists to our field of gravitational-wave astronomy

https://indico.global/e/glorious-women-2026

#GravitationalWaves #WomenInStem

LIGO: Detection, a documentary by Kai Staats looks at the stories behind our first detection (featuring our much missed Rai Weiss)

https://youtu.be/0lUxk8yxaNY

#GW10Years #GravitationalWaves #Astrodon

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?

https://ligo.org/science-summaries/GW241011-GW241110/

#O4IsHere #GW10Years #Astrodon

LIGO members have gone on to many varied careers, including computational linguistics.

In the #LIGOMagazine Lucía Santamaría told us about working on machine translation to convert text from one language to another. "My time in LIGO was extremely rewarding, both personally and professionally."

Read all about it at https://ligo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LIGO-magazine-issue17.pdf#page=31

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration will greatly miss our friend and colleague, Professor Rainer Weiss, whose immeasurable impact on gravitational-wave astronomy will be felt for generations to come

https://ligo.org/professor-emeritus-rainer-weiss-influential-physicist-who-forged-new-paths-to-understanding-the-universe-dies-at-92/

Our thoughts are with Rai's family and friends