Recent Research News

AEI researchers expect many more observations in one-year long data taking period [more]

The German-British gravitational-wave detector makes a key step towards third-generation observatories like the Einstein Telescope [more]

The observatories are also releasing their first catalog of gravitational-wave events [more]

Leibniz Universität Hannover wins funding for two own research projects. The Institute for Gravitational Physics and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics are partners in both. [more]

GEO600 researcher, Max Planck director, and professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover will receive the award from the city of Brunswick and the association “ForschungRegion Braunschweig e.V.” on the 28th September [more]

Award for Karsten Danzmann and Jim Hough together with French, and Italian colleagues [more]

Visit the gravitational-wave detector near Sarstedt [more]

Squeezed-light source developed at the Albert Einstein Institute to make Virgo even more sensitive to gravitational waves [more]

New discovery is lightest system so far observed [more]

Numerical-relativity simulation performed at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics on a new Deutsche Post stamp [more]

Discovery marks first cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and light [more]

Congratulations from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and Hannover, and the Leibniz Universität Hannover [more]

Another pair of merging black holes observed: This time, three large detectors have caught the gravitational wave [more]

LSC Statement about O2 [more]

Visit the gravitational-wave detector near Sarstedt and experience cutting-edge research at first hand [more]

Results confirm new population of black holes [more]

Representatives of federal, state, and regional parliaments get a tour of the gravitational-wave detector [more]

AEI Scientist Maria Alessandra Papa, together with three LSC colleagues, will accept the award on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration on December 12, 2016, in a ceremony in Washington DC [more]

AEI researchers expect new discoveries from LIGO instruments [more]

Light with special quantum properties enables for the first time a new method to measure photodetector quantum efficiency [more]

Den Gravitationswellen-Detektor bei Sarstedt besuchen [more]

Key contributions from GEO600, Max Planck, and Leibniz Universität Hannover researchers to second gravitational-wave event found in LIGO data [more]

Selection Committee of previous Breakthrough Prize winners recognizes contributors to experiment recording waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away. $3 million prize shared between LIGO founders Ronald W. P. Drever, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss and 1012 contributors to the discovery. [more]