EGO & the Virgo Collaboration
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Virgo is a Gravitational Wave detector, hosted by the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), near Pisa, Italy.
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Today is the fifth anniversary of the first ever detection of gravitational waves by the Virgo interferometer! On August 14th 2017, just two weeks after Virgo joined LIGO Livingston and LIGO Hanford in the second observing run (O2), the three detectors together observed a merger [1/2]
![Today is the fifth anniversary of the first ever detection of gravitational waves by the Virgo interferometer! On August 14th 2017, just two weeks after Virgo joined <a href="/LIGOLA/">LIGO Livingston</a> and <a href="/LIGOWA/">LIGO Hanford</a> in the second observing run (O2), the three detectors together observed a merger [1/2]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaG9-LrXgAA_1IB.jpg "EGO & the Virgo Collaboration (@ego_virgo) on Twitter photo Today is the fifth anniversary of the first ever detection of gravitational waves by the Virgo interferometer! On August 14th 2017, just two weeks after Virgo joined <a href=\"/LIGOLA/\">LIGO Livingston</a> and <a href=\"/LIGOWA/\">LIGO Hanford</a> in the second observing run (O2), the three detectors together observed a merger [1/2]")