LIGO members have gone on to many varied careers, including computational linguistics. Read about Lucía Santamaría's experience working on machine translation in @ligomagazine.bsky.social: ligo.org/wp-content/u... 🧪🎢👩‍💻

From March 9th to March 13th, Pisa will be home to the global gravitational waves community! EGO and Virgo will host the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration Meeting, the biannual meeting of the gravitational wave community, for the first time in Italy after more than a decade.

🧐 How many theories can be verified with a single #GravitationalWave signal? At least three, if this signal is GW250114, observed by the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration in January 2025. #10yearsofGravitationalWaves #GW10

The suspension goes into the chamber. I am the one holding the insertion arm on the right. This is a dangerous device, as its folds are effectively massive "scissors" ready to cut fingers or worse, so it has to be kept under control all the time. Video credit: Maryrose barrios. @ LIGO - Livingston

Later today!

🍂 What if a black hole born from the merger of two black holes merged with another black hole? We may find out thanks to gravitational waves, such as those observed by the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration in autumn 2024. Let's learn about these signals!

Our next LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA webinar will introduce the analysis methods used for our #GWTC4 results (paper arxiv.org/abs/2508.18081) 19 February at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Register for free wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🔭 ☄️ ⚛️ 🧪

From Viviana Cáceres: Kim Burtnyk shares her journey into science communication, her work as technical writer and editor at LIGO Lab, and advice for aspiring communicators. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/13/k...

The suspension was built in a clean room of the optics lab. It had to be transported to the interferometer. As it weighs close to 90kg we used a Genie lift with a special fixture we built. Here is the pickup moment. I am the one manning the crank. Video credit: Maryrose Barrios. @ LIGO - Livingston

It has been a busy first decade for gravitational-wave astronomy Here is to another decade of discoveries! #GW10Years

What I really love about this documentary is how in just a few minutes it shows the impact of the discovery—not just on science, but how it has inspired and motivated individuals, and how technology is finding applications in so many areas of life 🔭🧪⚛️🎢 #GW10Years

I made this animation a few years ago but wasn't able to share it back then because gifs weren't supported. Now I can! 🐡

Happy Valentine's Day to all gravitational-wave fans, and especially @egovirgo.bsky.social and KAGRA 💞💗💓

Yesterday at Palazzo Farnese in Rome, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves with an event organised by the Italian Ministry for University and Research, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), @cnrs.fr and EGO (more below)

Yesterday at the Planetarium of Rome, on the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves, the film for planetariums "Einstein Telescope, listening to the universe beyond the stars" was screened for the first time.

Yesterday marked 10 years since LSU Boyd Professor Gabriela González served as spokesperson for the 1,000+ member LIGO Scientific Collaboration to announce the first direct detection of gravitational waves. Watch: www.youtube.com/live/aEPIwEJ... #GeauxScience

I'm looking-forward to compering this exciting discussion on Thursday!

I refuse to accept that it's been TEN YEARS since I sat in that room 😭

A delicious representation of a binary black hole merger!

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the announcement of the direct detection of gravitational waves by @ligo.org. In honor of that milestone, we've put together a collection of our coverage of gravitational-wave research through the years. #LIGO #gravitationalwaves #physics #astronomy

10 years ago today, our discovery paper was published in Physical Review Letters doi.org/10.1103/Phys... 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 aps.altmetric.com/details/5333... #GW10Years #OTD #OpenAccess 🔭⚛️🧪

We're rather proud of this paper (which is free to read) #GW10Years

#OTD Ten years ago, PRL published the @ligo.org discovery paper Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

#GW150914 birthday cakes enjoyed by our scientists. You can't make discoveries without an occasional sweet treat #GW10Years 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪

A delightful mini-documentary from our @uofgravity.bsky.social colleagues to celebrating the first decade of #GravitationalWave astronomy and the path ahead youtu.be/SqhFtkQ4f2c #GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️🎢

What has happened in the 10 years since #GW150914? @space.com picks their top 10 discoveries. What are yours? www.space.com/astronomy/li... by @robleascijorno.bsky.social #GW10Years 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪

It’s been 10 years since the discovery of GWs was announced to the world! ✨ It’s also Intl Day of Women & Girls in Sci 💜 Here’s something to celebrate both—a symposium ft. women in GW science! 👩‍💻 Register here: indico.global/e/glorious-w... #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #GW10Years

Daniel Williams @daniel-williams.co.uk joined our collaboration on 14 September 2015 at the start of his PhD. He shares his perspectives on the last decade and things to come astronomersdiary.substack.com/p/celebratin... #GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️ #AcademicSky

OTD 10 years ago, LIGO detected gravitational waves for the first time. Here's how @castelvecchi.bsky.social reported on it: www.nature.com/articles/530...

The @ligomagazine.bsky.social celebrates 10 years since our first detection #GW150914 with their birthday issue ligo.org/wp-content/u... #GW10Years 🔭🧪

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science ♀️ Change is possible and is already happening, but there is still a lot to do, here’s some data to help us understand!

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience! We are happy to share this online symposium organised by LIGO-India highlighting contributions from female scientists to our field of gravitational-wave astronomy indico.global/e/glorious-w... 🔭☄️👩‍💻

LIGO: Detection, a documentary by Kai Staats looks at the stories behind our first detection (featuring our much missed Rai Weiss) youtu.be/0lUxk8yxaNY #GW10Years 🧪🔭⚛️

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 11 February 2016 "LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes" apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap16021... A beautiful artistic interpretation of our first discovery 10 years ago today #GW10Years #OTD 🔭🧪🐚

Back in 2016, our scientists from @gravitycardiff.bsky.social explained the our first detection of gravitational waves youtu.be/Lcxt097G4Ps?... (Featuring our now spokesperson Prof. Fairhurst enjoying paddling in a swimming pool) #GW10Years

10 years ago today, we told the world "We have detected gravitational waves. We did it!" Relive the moment we shared our result with the world www.youtube.com/live/aEPIwEJ... #GW10Years #OTD 🔭🧪⚛️ 🎂

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it!" — Today marks the 10th anniversary of the announcement of @ligo.org first detection! Do you remember? #GW10Years

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the announcement of our first detection! Back in 2016, excitement was building with everyone getting into the spirit with #ChirpForLIGO (thank you @astrokatie.com!) Reminisce with this supercut www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzi... #GW10Years ⚛️🧪🔭

Our next LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA webinar will introduce our latest #GWTC4 detections and discoveries (paper arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082) Register for free wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 12 February at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after 🔭☄️⚛️🧪

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.bsky.social: ligo.org/wp-content/u... 🔭🧪

If you are in Birmingham (UK) next week you might be interested in an evening of music & talks in celebration of 10 years of #GravitationalWave detection! Find out more: thesoundofgravitationalwaves.my.canva.site Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/gravi... 🗺️ Midlands Arts Centre 🗓️ 11th Feb 2026

Since its publication, over one hundred years ago, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has revolutionized physics and our knowledge of the universe, and testing its accuracy in different scenarios has been a fundamental mission of experimental physics.

On the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the first detection of gravitational waves, let's discover together all the most interesting observations made by the @ligo.org -Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration.

Gravitational wave science continues to inspire artists, and especially musicians, all over the world 🎶 “The Symphony of the universe” is a project by artist Ana Schurmann and scientists of the Virgo Brasil Group Cássius Anderson Miquele de Melo and Regiley Pimenta Ramos de Oliveira

EGO and the PICO Project, funded by the European Union, are pleased to offer, for the second year in a row, remote tours to the Virgo interferometer. 💫 👉 Don’t miss this opportunity and register for one of the available dates via the form: tinyurl.com/Virgo-virtua...

Today, 10 years ago, we had the first laser light on LPF! 💛🛰️ Laser interferometry was used on LPF to track the position of the test masses along the sensitive axis, and will be used on LISA too for the same purpose. #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission [Image credits: University of Glasgow]

Happy birthday to #GW250114 our loudest detection to date! In this video, @drbecky.bsky.social explains how we used the signal to test one of Hawking's fundamental ideas about black holes www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fLO... 🧪⚛️🔭

On this day, for #LPF10anniversary: following the successful separation from the launch vehicle, the mission operations team at ESOC undertook one of the most complex Launch and Early Operations Phases (LEOP) ever undertaken or an ESA mission. Watch it here 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=maKX...

"Taking care of plants is my way to do hands-on science every day and remember that science is actually part of the real world, it doesn't just exist on your computer." Find out more about Amanda at #HumansOfLIGO: humansofligo.blogspot.com/2025/12/aman... 🧪🔭

We completed our setup and used it to characterize the photodiodes (red arrow) to be used in the suspension. @LIGO Livingston