Gravitational wave detector VIRGO joins forces with LIGO
(WorldNews Netherlands)

On August 1st 2017, the European-based VIRGO gravitational wave detector has officially joined the American-based twin LIGO detectors to record data on gravitational waves: ripples in space-time caused by (for example) merging black holes. Astrophysicists from Radboud University play an important role in the interpretation of the new astrophysical information that becomes available through the...