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glasgow.ac.uk
Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein.

More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q

#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
@uofgravity.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
ligo.org
Nine years ago we announced to the world that we have detected #GravitationalWaves we did it!

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LIGO -- Dave Reitze We have Detected Gravitational Waves
YouTube video by sciencejedi
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February 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
ligo.org
#GravitationalWaves provide a unique way to study black holes

This Orrery (by Zoheyr Doctor) illustrates the diverse black hole binaries and neutron star black–hole binaries from our O3b run. More massive binaries are shown as orbiting more slowly

#BlackHoleWeek 🔭
May 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
skyandtelescope.bsky.social
The LIGO gravitational-wave detector celebrates its 10th birthday with the clearest signal yet from a pair of merging black holes.
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#astronomy #ligo #gravitationalwaves
September 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
uob-bear.bsky.social
Can next-generation gravitational-wave observatories reveal black holes from the Universe’s first stars? Using BlueBEAR HPC @unibirmingham.bsky.social, researchers explored how. blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2026/09... #GravitationalWaves #HPC #Astrophysics
September 29, 2026 at 9:16 AM
unwashedrepublic3.bsky.social
#Science #GravitationalWaves and #Pulsars
#Astronomy
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Huge New Discovery About The Universe
YouTube video by Cleo Abram
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September 26, 2026 at 6:41 PM
astronerdika.bsky.social
Isobel, you absolute legend 🔥🔥🔥

@ligo.org @ligomagazine.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #GravitationalWaves
royalastrosoc.bsky.social Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · Jun 26
We're delighted to announce that Dr Isobel Romero-Shaw has won the 2026 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship.

Her lecture, at the University of Bath in November, is titled 'Violent Beginnings Have Violent Ends: Deciphering the Origins of Binary Compact Object Collisions with Gravitational Waves'.

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June 26, 2026 at 10:06 PM
lisacommunity.bsky.social
This year it is 10 years since the discovery of #GravitationalWaves in 2015!

www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20...

@ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social
#GW150914
#GR24Amaldi16
A speaking giving a talk on a stage with slides projected behind them.
July 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
skyandtelescope.bsky.social
The number of gravitational-wave signals, ripples in spacetime that sweep past Earth, has just doubled.
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#astronomy #stargazing #gravitationalwaves
September 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
tiffanynichols.bsky.social
Finding sites for precision instruments, especially in LIGO's case, is no easy task. My article on LIGO's consideration of placing part of their broadband gravitational wave detector in the Blueberry Barrens of Maine is now available in @isisjournal.bsky.social! #histstem #hps #gravitationalwaves
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August 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
linda-howes77.bsky.social
Available here linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/thi...

#wallartforsale #wallart #art #NASA #Einstein #gravitationalWaves #Theory #physics #giftideas #gifts #TheoryofRelativity #space #art #binaryBlackHoles #ArtistsImpressionsofSpace
February 13, 2026 at 2:11 AM
skyandtelescope.bsky.social
One of two Nobel Prize-winning LIGO sites is on the budgetary chopping block.
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#astronomy #LIGO #budget #budgetcuts #NSF #gravitationalwaves #interferometry
“Shattering” NSF Budget Proposal Threatens Gravitational Wave Science
One of two Nobel Prize-winning Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) sites is on the budgetary chopping block.
skyandtelescope.org
June 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
tiffanynichols.bsky.social
Check out the Humans of LIGO blog! Provides an inside look at the amazing LIGO community! It has been a dream to study the history of the amazing endeavor that is LIGO and those who founded, foster, and research in the LIGO Scientific Community! Thanks so much for featuring me! #gravitationalwaves
ligo.org LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · Jun 20
"I remember thinking, I would not want to be an engineer on LIGO due to the complex challenges of designing and operating precision instruments. That thought fuelled my curiosity"

Find out more about Tiffany (@tiffanynichols.bsky.social) at #HumansOfLIGO: humansofligo.blogspot.com/2025/06/tiff...
A selfie of Tiffany inside of the LIGO Hanford detector. Tiffany has dark skin and is wearing a hair net and yellow framed glasses. In the background are detector components with many wires, and two other people in hair nets.
June 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
startswithabang.bsky.social
Gravity can’t be an instantaneous force

In Newton's gravity, the force was instantaneous and worked across infinite distances.

According to Einstein, that can't be right.
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#space #physics #astro #gravitationalwaves
Gravity can't be an instantaneous force
Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn't instant.
bigthink.com
August 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
ligo.org
We have observed a diverse family of black holes using #GravitationalWaves

We now now they come in a range of sizes, but what are the biggest and smallest black holes we have discovered?

#BlackHoleWeek 🔭🧪 1/🧵

📊: @nuciera.bsky.social
Masses in the stellar graveyard. A plot showing the masses of black holes and neutron stars observed with gravitational waves and light. The points are arranged to look nice (they are not ordered along the horizontal axis)
May 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
lisacommunity.bsky.social
What an exciting day for #GravitationalWaves!

Congratulations on an amazing decade of discovery!
@ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA

#GW10Years
ligo.org LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · Feb 11
10 years ago today, our discovery paper was published in Physical Review Letters

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It has gone on to be highly cited. But it has also had an impact outside of academia—its @altmetric.com is in the top 1000

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#GW10Years #OTD #OpenAccess 🔭⚛️🧪
The cover of Physical Review Letters Volume 116, Number 6 featuring a cover image representing our paper: a diagram of a binary black hole coalescence over the data from our two observatories. Altmetric score in context for the paper: #972 of 31,708,647 outputs #1 of 48,869 outputs from Physical Review Letters #4 of 437,630 outputs of a similar age #1 of 574 outputs of a similar age from Physical Review Letters
February 12, 2026 at 10:40 AM
fqxi.org
We spoke to Hassan recently at @perimeterinstitute.ca, where he's working with @nafshordi.bsky.social to detect quantum echoes in #GravitationalWaves as a way to prove #QuantumGravity.
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
token1.bsky.social
“We’ve catalogued 128 more gravitational wave events…”

86 confirmed.
The weave deepens.

#LIGO #GravitationalWaves #ListeningToTheUniverse
ligo.org LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · Aug 26
Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run are out today!

We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars

📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4
New masses in the stellar graveyard plot, showing astronomical observations of black holes and neutron stars. The number of gravitational-wave observations of black holes is overwhelming. The plot is arranged to look nice, the horizontal axis has no meaning, but the vertical one shows masses. We have a significant range of masses from about 1 solar mass to over 200 solar masses for our largest merger remnant. New out today is a neutron star black hole binary GW230518_125908, as well as a lot of binary black holes.
August 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
mmylova.bsky.social
With so many new people arriving and older ones coming out from the woods my list with people that work in #cosmology #particle #physics #astrophysics #gravitationalwaves has doubled in size! So I am sharing again 🤩 bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 13, 2024 at 10:36 AM
astronerdika.bsky.social
OTD 11 years ago we discovered an event that birthed a whole new field of astronomy ✨

Happy Birthday #GW150914! 🥳

#GravitationalWaves #BlackHoles
Image of Figure 1 of the discovery paper showing an eight panel plot with 2 columns and 4 rows. Each row shows the observed gravitational wave signal over time, reconstructed signal against waveform template over time, the residual over time and frequency time graph showing the signal amplitude in colour map. Each column shows the signal observed in each of the LIGO detectors.
September 14, 2026 at 9:51 AM
ligo.org
The latest issue of the @ligomagazine.bsky.social is now out with all the latest #GravitationalWaves news!

Read it for free at ligo.org/wp-content/u...

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LIGO Magazine Issue 29 A+ bigger beamsplitters: A major upgrade for LIGO's A+ phase, p 18 GWTC-5.0 - the catalogue continues: 161 events added to the collection, p 6 LIGO Virgo KAGRA teamwork: Gravitational-wave autotune, p 8 Sept. 2026 LVK Meeting in Pune: GW research in India, p 11 A decade on... LISA Pathfinder persists in discovery, p 28
September 25, 2026 at 9:41 AM
daniel-williams.co.uk
In 2015 I was in the right place at the right time when the first gravitational wave was detected.

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#GravitationalWaves 🔭
September 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
skyandtelescope.bsky.social
Gravitational-wave astronomers have detected the collision of two beefy black holes, which created the most massive merger-made black hole found thus far.
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New Black Hole Merger Breaks Record
Gravitational-wave astronomers have detected the collision of two beefy black holes, which created the most massive merger-made black hole found thus far.
skyandtelescope.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
daniel-williams.co.uk
128 new mergers between black holes and neutron stars.

Today we're revealing the biggest ever update to our count of gravitational wave detections. New data from May 2023 to January 2024 has more than doubled the number we've seen.
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@ligo.org #Virgo #KAGRA #GravitationalWaves 🔭 #GWTC-4 #O4a
An image with a black hole merger in the background. The text reads "128 new mergers revealed: LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-4.0".
August 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
theinnovation.bsky.social
The Innovation Astronomy Call for Papers.
This Virtual Collection brings together innovative research across gravitational-wave astronomy, connecting source modeling and detector science with data analysis, astrophysical interpretation, and fundamental physics.
#astronomy #GravitationalWaves
September 27, 2026 at 3:57 AM