In 1915, Albert Einstein proposed the General Theory of Relativity (GR), in which gravity is described… Read more
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration recently released the largest catalog ever of Gravitational-wave (GW) detections and a… Read more
These maps show the upper limits of expected gravitational waves strains at different frequencies. The upper… Read more
Finally in January 2020, a pair of events, named GW200105 ad GW200115 were detected by gravitational… Read more
The search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) has been a focus of astronomers’ attention for many… Read more
In the first half of their third set of observations, the so-called “O3a observing run”, the… Read more
On May 21, 2019, at 8:32am IST, the Advanced LIGO detectors (at Hanford, Washington and Livingston,… Read more
The network of two advanced-LIGO detectors (at Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana, USA) and the advanced-Virgo… Read more
On April 12, 2019, just after 11:00 AM (IST), the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration… Read more
In the first month of the third observing run (O3) of the LIGO-Virgo detectors, five binary… Read more
After nearly two years of pause, the LIGO detector in the US and the Virgo detector… Read more
LIGO-India has received the final approval from the state environment impact assessment authority this January. The… Read more
![The beginning of Gravitational Wave Multi-messenger Astronomy
First GW detection from a neutron star merger; Concurrent detection by electromagnetic telescopes [Image Credit: CESSI, IISER Kolkata]](https://www.ligo-india.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BNS_CESSI.jpg)
Concurrent observation of electromagnetic emission launches gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. August 17, 2017 saw a major… Read more
Today, Tuesday August 1st 2017, the VIRGO detector located at the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in… Read more
Professor Predhiman Kaw was critically instrumental for LIGOIndia to happen. He was the first eminent scientist… Read more