Artist’s impression of a gravitational wave

News

Gravitational Waves Group

Results

LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA observed 'second generation' black holes for the first time

October 29, 2025

LVK announced the detection of two gravitational-wave signals — designated GW241011 and GW241110 — that indicate the merger of binary black holes exhibiting unusual mass ratios and spin orientations.

New Member

New member in the Gravitational Waves group

September 11, 2025

Leonardo Totti has joined the Gravitational Waves group as PhD student.

Event

ET‑PP Annual Meeting Gathers Einstein Telescope Community in Barcelona

July 25, 2025

The three-day gathering helped drive forward the strategic planning efforts for the Einstein Telescope’s next phase.

Network

IFAE joins REDONGRA, a network to propel Spain’s role in gravitational wave astronomy

July 7, 2025

The Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) is one of the key partners in REDONGRA, the new Spanish Network of Gravitational Wave Physics. The initiative brings together 20 research institutions to coordinate Spain’s contribution to gravitational wave science.

New Member

New member in the Gravitational Waves group

May 8, 2025

Sakshi Satish Madekar joined the Gravitational Waves group as a PhD student

conference

Mario Martínez Participates in G7 Conference on Large Research Infrastructures

October 31, 2024

The conference was held in Sardinia

New Member

New member in the Gravitational Waves group

September 5, 2024

Andrew Lundgren has joined IFAE as ICREA Research Professor.

Instrumentation

Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase

March 12, 2024

The IFAE contributions to the ETpathfinder test facility is described in this article “Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase ”.

Prize

Alba Romero-Rodriguez winner of the 2023 Virgo Awards

November 15, 2023

Alba Romero-Rodriguez (former PhD Student at IFAE and now at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) is one of the wiiners of the third edition of the Virgo Awards