Quick Questions on Virgo: “Are there other instruments like Virgo?”
Today there is an initial network of gravitational wave interferometers around the world.
Today there is an initial network of gravitational wave interferometers around the world.
Advanced Virgo will be sensitive to length changes in the 3-km arms which are on the order of a billionth of a billionth of a meter…
No source on Earth is capable of producing gravitational waves large enough to be detected by Virgo, but many violent phenomena in the Universe could generate detectable signals.
The sixth edition of the Science Festival, from the 6th to the 8th of May, will be centered on the show “wave hunters”