LIGO

@LIGO

Official Twitter of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. We detect gravitational waves! Email: [email protected]

Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA

Joined June 2008

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LIGO@LIGO · Dec 14, 2023

Everything you need to learn about the #GWTC3 #GravitationalWave discoveries 🔖 Paper: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe… 💾 Data release: gwosc.org/GWTC-3/ 💡 Science summary: ligo.org/science/Public… 🧑‍🏫Webinar: youtube.com/watch?v=MUyOVX… #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenScience

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 15

"Gravitational wave detector LIGO spots fast-spinning ‘forbidden’ black holes that challenge physics models" nature.com/articles/d4158… by @Astro_Jonny discusses the #GW231123 and the potential of gravitational-wave astronomy

LIGO's tweet card. Nature - Gravitational-wave detector LIGO spots fast-spinning ‘forbidden’ black holes that challenge physics models.

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 23

Sky & Telescope Magazine report on the proposed National Science Foundation budget's impact skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news… by Hannah Richter

LIGO's tweet image. Sky &amp; Telescope Magazine report on the proposed National Science Foundation budget's impact

skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news… by Hannah Richter

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LIGO India@LIGOIndia · Jul 17

Did you hear the latest news? 📰 @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR network of gravitational wave detectors discovered the heaviest black hole known to date✨ Watch this clip and click the link below to find out more! ligo-india.in/gw231123-the-m… Video credit: Saurabh Salunkhe

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National Academy of Sciences@theNASciences · Jul 15

Physicist and #NASmember Gabriela González was a spokesperson for @LIGO when it first detected gravitational waves—a discovery that opened an entirely new way of observing the universe. 🌌 In a @cececebe interview, she explains the science & what's next: ow.ly/lX5m50WpVHu

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 16

"Talk about epic. A collision of two black holes is so extreme that it’s challenging physics theories of how large black holes form and merge." sciencenews.org/article/bigges… by @emcconover on the exciting news of our detection of #GW231123

LIGO's tweet card. Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 15

"Merger of two massive black holes is one for the record books" Jennifer Ouellette (@arstechnica) reports on our LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR discovery of #GW231123 arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…

LIGO's tweet card. The event resulted in a new black hole with a mass 225 times larger than our Sun.

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The Nobel Prize@NobelPrize · Jul 15

Work hard, learn by doing and do something you love. On World Youth Skills Day, our 2017 physics laureates - Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rainer Wiess - share their advice for young researchers.

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 15

"So it’s a record! Cool! But it’s also weird. Why?" Phil Plait explains our latest gravitational-wave discovery #GW231123 badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-biggest-…

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 14

Our collaboration member Mark Hannam (@cardiffPHYSX) shares his insights on working on our latest discover, the particularly tricky gravitational-wave signal #GW231123 fictionalaether.substack.com/p/gw231123-an-…

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 14

"Ripples in space-time from collision recorded by gravitational wave detector forces a rethink of how the objects form" theguardian.com/science/2025/j… by @iansample reports on our discovery of #GW231123

LIGO's tweet card. Ripples in space-time from collision recorded by gravitational wave detector forces a rethink of how the objects form

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EGO & the Virgo Collaboration@ego_virgo · Jul 14

The @LIGO - Virgo - @KAGRA_PR Collaboration is happy to announce the detection of the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves 🕳️🕳️

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 14

The LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR study of #GW231123 was posted to the arXiv today, and is free to read arxiv.org/abs/2507.08219 Data are available from the GW Open Science Center gwosc.org/eventapi/html/… #OpenScience #OpenData

LIGO's tweet image. The LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR study of #GW231123 was posted to the arXiv today, and is free to read

arxiv.org/abs/2507.08219

Data are available from the GW Open Science Center

gwosc.org/eventapi/html/…

#OpenScience #OpenData

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 14

The discovery of #GW231123 was announced today to scientists at the #GR24Amaldi16 meeting with talks by Amanda Farah and Sophie Bini. International scientists heard about how we analysed such an unusual signal and what it could mean for our understanding of how black holes form

LIGO's tweet image. The discovery of #GW231123 was announced today to scientists at the #GR24Amaldi16 meeting with talks by Amanda Farah and Sophie Bini. International scientists heard about how we analysed such an unusual signal and what it could mean for our understanding of how black holes form

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 14

We are excited to announce the discovery of #GW231123, a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two high-mass black holes to form one about 190–265 times the mass of our Sun #O4IsHere

LIGO's tweet image. We are excited to announce the discovery of #GW231123, a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two high-mass black holes to form one about 190–265 times the mass of our Sun

#O4IsHere

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LIGO India@LIGOIndia · Jul 12

Want to understand how #Gravitationalwaves work? Watch the next video in the series of #virtualtours in Marathi of @LIGOLA observatory where @ShreejitJadhav from @Swinburne explains the Gravity Well exhibit at the Science Education Center youtu.be/DV4HFWer4Io?fe…

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 11

In case you were wondering what our scientists got up to in their free time

UUniversity of Glasgow@UofGlasgow · Jul 11

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 @UofGravity #GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves

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LIGO Hanford@LIGOWA · Jul 10

#ThrowbackThursday At @LIGO 📸 @LIGOWA Control Room From Feb 22, 2005--the 1st night of S4 (aka Science Run #4 for #InitialLIGO). For #ALIGO, we now call data-taking periods Observing Runs & are in O4. credit: Keith Riles of Univ of Michigan & #LIGOScientificCollaboration member

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LIGO India@LIGOIndia · Jul 8

Next in the series of #virtualtours in Marathi of @LIGOLA observatory, we have @ShreejitJadhav from @Swinburne walking us through the exhibits at the Science Education Center, including the 2017 Nobel Prize for the first detection of #Gravitationalwaves! youtu.be/gNMWHsFc67s?fe…

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 8

After a PhD & postdoc in LIGO, Letizia Sammut joined the Scientific Computing team at the Australian Synchrotron where research spans many disciplines. Read about Letizia's journey in @LIGOMagazine: ligo.org/wp-content/upl…

LIGO's tweet image. After a PhD &amp; postdoc in LIGO, Letizia Sammut joined the Scientific Computing team at the Australian Synchrotron where research spans many disciplines.

Read about Letizia's journey in @LIGOMagazine: ligo.org/wp-content/upl…

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LIGO@LIGO · Jul 2

Science Magazine discusses the potential impact of proposed budget cuts on our operation science.org/content/articl… by @hadriancho

LIGO's tweet image. Science Magazine discusses the potential impact of proposed budget cuts on our operation

science.org/content/articl… by @hadriancho

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