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Official Twitter of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. We detect gravitational waves! Email: [email protected]
Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA
Joined June 2008
Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR observing run are out today! We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars 📰 https://t.co/CNNFSO0AxS
#O4IsHere #GWTC4
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Count down the top 10 breakthroughs in the 10 years since our first detection with @SPACEdotcom. Do you agree with their picks? https://t.co/QC0s0xelm1 by @sciencef1rst
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14th Sep was celebrated internationally by the international scientific community as the tenth anniversary of the first direct detection of #Gravitationalwaves. LIGOIndia EPO joined the global celebration by organising a special event on this day @IUCAApune
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Yesterday's @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 https://t.co/EfpNWN1ScN 🎨A Simonnet
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@VanderbiltU @ChayanChirps A (simplified) interferometer layout made from brownies! We think it's safe to eat a few more components, and still give a good idea of how things work 🖼️: D Grass 🧵🎂 #GW10Years
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Celebrations at @VanderbiltU with artistic arrangements of cupcakes. We would like to analyze some of these. For science, of course 🖼️: @ChayanChirps 🧵📷 #GW10Years
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Two black (hole) forest cakes from Lyon! Real black holes are not as chocolatey We hope that @ehtelescope approve 🖼️: J Degallaix 🧵🎂 #GW10Years
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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 @ARC_OzGRav Looks like plenty to share? 🖼️: J Powell (@JadePowell12) 🧵🎂 #GW10Years
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“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 Joe Giaime talks to @wafb about our 10th anniversary https://t.co/VL687OhsKY by @Liamcombs3
#GW10Years
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President Trump’s federal budget proposal includes a 40% budget cut for LIGO
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A decade of detecting gravitational waves: @NakedScientists podcast catch up on the current status of gravitational-wave astronomy and future plans, including an interview with Prof. Gaby Gonzalez https://t.co/kPCcWEXGNW
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thenakedscientists.com
To boldly LIGO...
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During the recent LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR 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! https://t.co/offtIeMKun
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@arstechnica Data for #GW250114, like all our detections, are available from our Open Science Center https://t.co/BOe3RoGTNp If you would like to know more about our open data, our paper explains: https://t.co/4LnYs1n0mP
#OpenScience #OpenData
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A new mini-documentary by our colleagues at @UofGravity celebrating the 10th anniversary of our first detection and the progress in #GravitationalWave astronomy https://t.co/G6yKf0VBJ7
#GW10Years #Astronomy #SciComm
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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
https://t.co/OIT3FNdGT8 by @overbye
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Congratulations to our collaboration member Sir Jim Hough (@UofGravity) who has been awarded the Baird of Bute Innovation Award, for his contributions to gravitational-wave science https://t.co/GsclYPSY9L
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@ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR @LIGOMagazine It was a long road to the first detection of gravitational waves, and exciting progress since! Catch up with the history in this poster from @LIGOMagazine
https://t.co/G1LzMhEv98 🗺️: C Lee/C Knox/@ARC_OzGRav
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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 https://t.co/lz7dER4kCi by Katherine Bourzac #GW10Years
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Detection of waves emitted by colliding binary black holes opened a new era in astrophysics and proved that Einstein was right.
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@ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR @LIGOMagazine #GWTC4 is the latest collection of #GravitationalWave observations. In the past decade we have gone from zero to hundreds of detections! Learn more about our discoveries, and the experiences of the team behind #GWTC4 in @LIGOMagazine
https://t.co/AzZnAEHqjV
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Look back at our first discoveries with the award-winning LIGO documentary by @LesGuthman
https://t.co/T6NEXZD9Vf
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#OTD in 2015, the universe’s gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein a century before, were observed for the first time by @LIGO. The observation led to a new way to study our universe and the 2017 #NobelPrize in Physics for Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne.
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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
https://t.co/mB6mY2RlYL
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