Today, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have announced the detection of a new gravitational wave event, GW170817, which constitutes the first time that a binary neutron star merger has been detected with the LIGO-Virgo observatories. This unique observation is even more compelling since the same collision was seen by the Fermi […]
Monthly archives: October 2017
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The 2017 Physics Nobel Prize has been attributed to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for the observation of gravitational waves, a discovery announced on February 11th, 2016. The ANTARES Collaboration congratulates their pioneering work, and the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration for this award. The ANTARES Collaboration was happy to participate […]