Recent Research News

The German-British detector GEO600 near Hannover, Germany, and the Japanese detector KAGRA near Hida, Japan, carried out a joint observation run. The main goals of the run called “O3GK” were to coordinate the collaboration between the detector teams and to gain experience in jointly analysing data from the two instruments. [more]

LIGO and Virgo detectors catch first gravitational wave from binary black hole merger with unequal masses [more]

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]