Recent Research News

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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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]

Anmeldung zu Sonderführungen jetzt möglich [more]

LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes – Key contributions from Max Planck Society and Leibniz Universität Hannover researchers [more]

100 years ago Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves. [more]

Classical and Quantum Gravity names “Advanced Techniques in GEO 600” as 2014-2015 highlight [more]

Öffentliche Vorträge zum 100-jährigen Geburtstag der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie und dem Internationalen Jahr des Lichts [more]