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GW250114 – Black hole collision confirms theories of Einstein and Hawking Louder cousin of the first detection

Saurabh Salunkhe September 30, 2025

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA international network of Gravitational Wave observatories announced the discovery of an exceptional astronomical event. The… Read more

Gravitational Wave Transient Catalogue – 4 Data Release Updated gravitational catalogue released

Saurabh Salunkhe August 29, 2025

GW231123 – THE MOST MASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARY DETECTED THROUGH GRAVITATIONAL WAVES A collision between two massive and highly spinning black holes

Saurabh Salunkhe July 14, 2025

GW230529 – Collision of a neutron star with a compact object in the mass-gap LIGO-India could hold the key to solving this cosmic mystery

Debarati Chatterjee April 6, 2024

Testing Einstein’s Theory of Gravity with Gravitational Waves Researchers from the LIGO-India Scientific Collaboration (LISC) contribute to important achievements in Gravitational Wave Science putting Einstein’s Theory to test, by analysing data from a recently compiled catalog

Vaibhav Savant December 14, 2021

Newly detected merging Black Holes establish Gravitational Waves as a powerful tool to explore the unseen Universe Indian researchers contribute to breakthroughs in various frontiers of Cosmology and Astrophysics using a newly compiled Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog

Vaibhav Savant November 16, 2021

All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs - O1, O2 & O3

Vaibhav Savant October 20, 2021

LIGO spots the first hybrid stellar collision LIGO’s sensational discovery of a new source of gravitational waves: collisions between Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Vaibhav Savant June 30, 2021

A Symphony of Giant Monsters Searching for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Binaries in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run

Vaibhav Savant June 4, 2021

When gravity bends gravity: Did gravitational-wave astronomers catch “Gravitational Lenses” at work?

Vaibhav Savant May 13, 2021

GW190521 – First clear evidence of Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBH) The heaviest and most distant binary black hole merger detected so far

Sanjit Mitra September 2, 2020

GW190814 – Discovery of the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron star? LIGO-India will provide major help in solving such mysteries

Sanjit Mitra June 23, 2020

First detection of unequal mass binary merger Mass asymmetry generated detectable signal from higher multipoles

Sanjit Mitra April 20, 2020

Five binary merger candidates within one month of LIGO-Virgo’s O3 run Long Nights for Astronomers!

Sanjit Mitra May 2, 2019

LIGO and Virgo are starting the third observing run with enhanced sensitivity Squeezed light to significantly stretch the observable volume

Sanjit Mitra March 24, 2019

Environmental clearance given to LIGO-India

Sanjit Mitra March 20, 2019

First detection of gravitational-waves from colliding neutron stars

Sanjit Mitra October 17, 2017

VIRGO joins LIGO for the Observation Run 2

Sanjit Mitra August 1, 2017

Professor Predhiman Kaw 1948 - 2017

Sanjit Mitra June 20, 2017

LISA mission selected by ESA

Sanjit Mitra June 20, 2017

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