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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 2

    As members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, we condemn all forms of racism. We stand with our Black members, colleagues, and friends to strive for justice and equality in the face of systemic discrimination, hatred and racism.

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  2. Aug 9

    Three years ago today the network of detectors observed the binary merger .

    GW170809 is a gravitational wave detected by the - Ligo-Virgo network 3 years ago, emitted by the merger of two Black Holes (35 and 23.8 times the Sun mass), at a distance of 3 billion light years and resulting in a final spinning Black Hole of 56.3 Sun masses.
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  3. Retweeted
    Aug 6

    52 years ago, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, the rapidly spinning cores of dead stars. They crush the mass of our Sun into a city-size sphere, and our NICER mission recently revealed they’re even weirder than we thought! 🤯 Learn more:

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  4. Aug 6

    We're excited to see and on the cover of the textbook for the final-year high school course. More than 500K students took the exam this year, and is also where the detector will be located!

    The latest edition of ’s 11th standard ’s cover page is themed on the detection of by ! More Info👉 Credit: State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research,
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  5. Retweeted
    Aug 1

    Exactly 3 years ago joined . It turned out to be a wonderful month, full of with very significant astrophysical implications, the 1st announced triple detection and the beginning of multi-messenger astronomy among them. 🎂

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  6. Jul 29

    Cool fact from our new paper: because we *didn't* find from pulsar J0711–6830 (about 358 l.y. distant) the equator of this is a perfect circle to within the width of a human hair! More news at

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  7. Jul 29

    And for a public-friendly description of the science in our new paper, check out the science summary at (Also available in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Spanish - and you can read the full paper too at )

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  8. Jul 29

    "Best constraints yet on the size of "mountains" on millisecond pulsars": you can read a news item about our most recent paper, about new results from searches for from spinning , at

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  9. Jul 29

    A thread from our scientist Matt explaining our most recent paper looking for continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars

    In the latest paper from we've surpassed the spin-down limit for a millisecond pulsar using direct gravitational-wave observations for the first time
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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 29

    3 years ago the GW170729 arrived on Earth. It was generated from the merger of a Binary Black Hole system, the most distant source and also the heaviest among all detected during the runs O1-O2 of the Advanced and Advanced Virgo network.

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  11. Jul 26

    You can download our special Spectra special comic (and other, older editions) at . Watch out on for special translated editions - coming soon!...

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  12. Jul 26

    Check out the latest edition of Journal Club which tells the story of our discovery, and what it might tell us about the origins of and

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  13. Jul 26

    And there's tons more to see at at home; check out the floor plan here!

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  14. Jul 26

    Find out more about Spectra, and how she saves the day for and on a field trip to , at the "Physics Central" booth #2102

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  15. Jul 26

    This weekend is delighted to be at at home, joining our friends to spread the news about the latest, special edition of the Spectra comic!!

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  16. Jul 26

    We are so proud of Sharon Yellowfly and scientist Corey Gray, , for their wonderful outreach work translating our press releases into the Blackfoot language! 👏👏👏👏

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  17. Retweeted
    Jul 26

    3rd ** GW@Home-2 with 🎙️Astrophysical Origins of Merging 🎙️ Dr. Sourav Chatterjee, TIFR 👉 ➡️27 July 2020 (Monday) ➡️4:00 - 5:00 PM (UTC + 5:30) 👉

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  18. Jul 25

    Our executive director David Reitze talks to about the importance of global cooperation to gravitational-wave astronomy bia 🗺️

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  19. Retweeted
    Jul 22

    Continuing my sci-fi detectors with Tatooine and Hoth (not to be mistaken for Hanford! ;) ) from . These are so much fun to make! Any idea for other fictional planets?

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    Jul 21

    I made some versions of detectors! LAO (LIGO Arrakis Observatory) and LCO (LIGO Caladan Observatory). They remind me a lot of and ! (with some design elements shamelessly stolen from ' infographics)

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  21. Jul 18

    How gravitational wave astronomy has grown, and where we still have to go via

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