Recent Research News

LIGO and Virgo observe a distant binary neutron star merger with surprisingly high mass [more]

The gravitational-wave observatory near Pisa listens deeper into the cosmos with technology from Hanover [more]

On November 1^st at 15:00 UTC, the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors resumed their search for gravitational waves. All three sites halted operations for the entire month of October to perform some maintenance and upgrades. [more]

Max Planck Director and Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover honored [more]

Director emeritus at the AEI in Potsdam will be awarded this year’s Eddington Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society. [more]

Membership in the National Academy of Sciences is considered one of the highest honors a scientist can receive [more]

Visit the gravitational-wave detector near Sarstedt [more]

The gravitational-wave candidates were likely produced by mergers of a neutron star-black hole binary and a binary neutron star [more]

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

Director emeritus at the AEI in Potsdam will be awarded this year’s Eddington Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society. [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]

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