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GEO600 Gravitational-wave Detector

GEO600 is a key technology development center of the international gravitational-wave research community. Technologies developed and tested in the GEO project are now used in all large gravitational-wave detectors in the world.

Technology development for gravitational-wave astronomy

GEO600 is a key technology development center of the international gravitational-wave research community. Technologies developed and tested in the GEO project are now used in all large gravitational-wave detectors in the world.

GEO600 is a key technology development center of the international gravitational-wave research community. Technologies developed and tested in the GEO project are now used in all large gravitational-wave detectors in the world.

Technology development for gravitational-wave astronomy

GEO600 is a key technology development center of the international gravitational-wave research community. Technologies developed and tested in the GEO project are now used in all large gravitational-wave detectors in the world.

Hannover research team develops most powerful laser system yet for gravitational-wave detectors

A brighter future for gravitational-wave astronomy

German-British instrument mitigates quantum noise effects better than any gravitational-wave detector before

GEO600 reaches 6 dB of squeezing

The state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia has unanimously pledged its support for the groundbreaking international science project Einstein Telescope (ET).

NRW state parliament unanimously supports Einstein Telescope

New LIGO/Virgo catalog contains 50 gravitational-wave signals, several from unusual sources

Dozens of new gravitational-wave events in six months

A quantum mechanical effect demonstrated for the first time in the Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detector

Squeezed light makes Virgo’s mirrors jitter

Einstein Telescope Consortium press release

Einstein Telescope proposal submitted to ESFRI roadmap

Far-away black hole collision is the most massive and most distant ever observed by the gravitational-wave detectors

LIGO and Virgo catch their biggest fish so far

Research

Advanced Technologies

GEO600 is the think tank for advanced detector technologies

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GEO600 Diary

Building and operating a gravitational-wave detector

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GEO Collaboration

The GEO Collaboration comprises 16 European research institutions.

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For the public

Directions and visits to GEO600

The gravitational-wave detector GEO600 is situated 20 kilometers south of Hannover close to Sarstedt near the village Ruthe.

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Movies about GEO600 and gravitational waves

Enjoy films about the first detection of gravitational waves, GEO600, aerial views of the detector, and many more.

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News

A brighter future for gravitational-wave astronomy

March 17, 2021

Future gravitational-wave detectors on Earth will use laser light with even higher power than in current instruments. Researchers from the ...

GEO600 reaches 6 dB of squeezing

January 27, 2021

Gravitational waves cause tiny length changes in the kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, KAGRA, LIGO, Virgo). The ...

NRW state parliament unanimously supports Einstein Telescope

November 12, 2020