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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Last week, #LIGOMagazine was at RASreach in Manchester! @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk Lots of great presentations and discussions - plus the chance to hear the #GravitySynth in action!

A poster presenting the LIGO Magazine. The poster is on a blue conference poster board. Next to the poster there is a copy of the latest edition of the LIGO Magazine attached to the poster board with string.

Leon Trimble showing the GravitySynth which uses gravitational wave technology as a musical instrument! Gravity Synth is a table top interferometer plus modular synthesisors to create music.
The image shows two people in a lecture room stood next to a table with lots of equipment on it. There are many cables and synthesisors. The Gravity Synth is in an open orange travel case and you can see the green glow of the laser.

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EGO and the Virgo Collaboration @egovirgo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Last week over 400 scientists of the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration met in Pisa, Italy for the LVK Meeting, the biannual gathering of the global community studying gravitational waves 🌟🌍

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Annalena Kofler @annalenakofler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

So much fun at the #LVK conference in Pisa. My favorite: An illustration of the first gravitational wave signal observed 10 years ago

Large paper lying on the ground that shows the time-frequency signal of the first gravitational wave. It consists of small colored paper pieces with illustrations.

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New #LIGOMagazine out now! : Check it out at: 👉 www.ligo.org/magazine where you can find all editions of LIGO Magazine free to download! @ligo.org - @egovirgo.bsky.social - KAGRA

The front cover of the latest edition of the LIGO Magazine. The main cover image highlights Observing Run 4 (O4) results with the headline "O4 A cornucopia of results". The image shows an artistic illustration of a merging black hole binary with swirling reds and blues. Image by Carl Knox / OzGrav / Swinburne.

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

What an exciting time! Back in issue 8, we caught up with all the hopes and nerves as the #LISAPathfinder team prepared for launch! ligo.org/wp-content/u... (pdf, page 62) #LISAMission #LPF10anniversary

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Lovely to look back at old editions - issue 8 not only celebrated the launch of #LISAPathfinder 🚀, it was also our special first detection edition! #GW150914 🎉 www.ligo.org/magazine #LISAMission #LPF10anniversary @lisacommunity.bsky.social

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Happy 10 Year anniversary to LISA Pathfinder! 🎉💛 And lots to look forward to for the #LISAMission! #LPF10anniversary @lisacommunity.bsky.social

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It's been 10 years since our dear LISA Pathfinder (LPF) launched! For the ones who don't know much about it, here's a quick refresher about your favorite mission's precursor 🛰️💛 #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 03/12/2025

Happy 10th launch anniversary, LISA Pathfinder! 🥳 For the first time ever, this mission tested in space the technology needed to detect gravitational waves, which paved the way to LISA 🤜 🤛 Planned to launch in 2035, LISA will be first gravitational wave detector in space 👉 esa.int/lisa 🔭

Artist’s impression of LISA Pathfinder in space. The Earth is visible in the background, partly lit.

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

In the latest edition of the #LIGOMagazine, Catalina Miritescu told us all about bringing #GravitationalWave noise hunting with @ligo.org-@egovirgo.bsky.social-KAGRA to the Romanian National Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad! Read all about it at (pdf, page 38): ligo.org/wp-content/u...

A screenshot of LIGO Magazine article "From noise hunting to Olympiads" by Catalina Miritescu. The page shows the article title and a photo of the author. The image shows a plot produced by students as part of their Olympiad challenge.
Image credit: Catalina Miritescu.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 29/10/2025

We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110 Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger? ligo.org/science-summ... #O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

Infographic about GW241011 and GW241110

GW241011's source contained black holes about 13 and 8 times the mass of our Sun. The spin of the bigger black hole is high and bear aligned with the orbit.

GW241110's source contained black holes about 17 and 8 times the mass of our Sun. The spin of the larger black hole is high and near anti-aligned with the orbit.

Credit: Shanika Galaudage/Northwestern University/Adler Planetarium

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 12/11/2025

Our next webinar will introduce our latest #GWTC4 release and the associated data (papers arxiv.org/abs/2508.18080 and arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079) Tomorrow at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Free registration wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... ☄️🔭

GWTC-4.0 Introduction & Open Data Webinar

13 November 2025

Webinar live from 15:00 UTC

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LIGO-India @ligoindia.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

14th Sep was celebrated internationally by the international scientific community as the tenth anniversary of the first direct detection of #Gravitationalwaves. LIGO-India EPO joined the global celebration by organising a special event on this day IUCAA, Pune

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 25/09/2025

Yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day #APOD featured #GW250114! This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat as two black holes spiral together on their way toward producing the strongest gravitational-wave signal we've detected so far apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25092... 🎨A Simonnet 🔭🐚

This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat for GW250114, a powerful collision between two black holes observed in gravitational waves by the US National Science Foundation LIGO. It depicts the view from one of the black holes as it spirals toward its cosmic partner.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 19/09/2025

Last Sunday was the 10th anniversary of our first #GravitationalWave detection! Join us for a thread of celebratory cakes enjoyed by members of our collaboration First, a cake from @ozgrav.bsky.social Looks like plenty to share? 🖼️: J Powell 🧵🎂 #GW10Years

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

In the latest edition of #LIGOMagazine, Ivan Markin chats with Pekka Manninen from LUMI (@lumi-supercomputer.eu) about paths to fossil free computing & the LUMI experience of using 100% renewables. Read all about it at (pdf, page 40): ligo.org/wp-content/u... #ClimateChangeConversations #GW10Years

A screenshot from LIGO Magazine article "A path to fossil-free supercomputing". The image shows the title of the article displayed over a photo of the LUMI data centre in Finland. The data centre is in a large building and is artistically lit in shades of blue.
Image credit: Fade Creative.

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We are thrilled to feature two posters in the latest #LIGOMagazine! One poster explores the evolution of #GravitationalWave science. By Yi Shuen Christine Lee / Carl Knox / @ozgrav.bsky.social Full resolution version at: dcc.ligo.org/G2501957/pub... #GW10Years @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social

A poster in purples, pinks and blues showing a timeline of gravitational wave science. The timeline starts in the 1910s with the proposal of the existence of gravitational waves and goes up to the present day when we celebrate 10 years of gravitational wave observations as well as looking to future wit new facilities being planned and built. Throughout the timeline, there are illustrations showing black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves and interferometers.

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Friends, did you know that @ligo.org and @ligomagazine.bsky.social were on Bluesky? If you want to keep up to date with the gravitational wave world go follow them! 🧪🔭

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 17/09/2025

A decade of detecting gravitational waves: The Naked Scientists podcast catch up on the current status of gravitational-wave astronomy and future plans, including an interview with Prof. Gaby Gonzalez www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak... #GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️

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A decade of detecting gravitational waves

To boldly LIGO...

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 16/09/2025

During the recent LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA meeting, the 2024 winner of the LIGO Laboratory Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration, Louis Dartez, received his honorary Calibration Wizard hat. Congratulations to Dr. Dartez! www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/award-e...

Louis Dartez receiving his LIGO Calibration Wizard hat at the September 2025 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA meeting from Jess McIver. The hat is a traditional pointy blue hat, but is covered with images of lasers.

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Exciting to get a first look at the #LISA spacecraft! In the latest #LIGOMagazine, Oliver Jennrich & Nora Lützgendorf told us all about the selection of the industrial prime contractor. Read all about it on page 34 (pdf): ligo.org/wp-content/u... @lisacommunity.bsky.social #GW10Years

A screenshot of LIGO Magazine article "LISA construction starts: Industrial prime contractor selected!" which is part of the "Meanwhile in Space..." series. The image shows the title of the article as well as two images.
One image shows the handshake between Carole Mundell (from ESA) and Chiara Pedersoli (from OHB). They are smiling and standing in front of a banner which reads "LISA mission signature event".
The other image shows the two authors of the article, Oliver Jennrich & Nora Lützgendorf. They are sat together at a table smiling.

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Happy birthday GW150914! When you were detected I was still an undergrad looking to get into GWs for her PhD (it's important to my internal story of myself that I wanted to do this *before* the detection) It's hard to believe how far we've come since then. 🐡🧪🔭 #GW10Years

A digital drawing with text that says "happy birthday GW150914", a spacetime cake with a 10 and two black holes on it, and the GW150914 waveforms around it all

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EGO and the Virgo Collaboration @egovirgo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Exactly 10 years ago, the signal of a gravitational wave from the merger of two black holes arrived on Earth. It was not a special signal, but one like many that had always reached our planet. On that day, however, for the first time humankind was ready to listen to it. (1/7)

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 13/09/2025

The latest issue of @ligomagazine.bsky.social is out now and free to read 🎉 Celebrate 10 years of gravitational-wave astronomy with us 🎉 ligo.org/wp-content/u... 🔭🧪⚛️ #GW10Years

Front cover of issue 27 of the LIGO Magazine

10 years of graviational wave astronomy

GW150914 to GW231123: a signal that changed to world (p 6)

GW231123: the most massive black hole merger yet! (p 24)

GWTC-4.0 cataglgue paper (p 20)

GW observatories of the future (p 34)

Climate change conversations: Fossil-free supercomputing (p 40)

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🎉 New LIGO Magazine out now!! 🎉 Celebrating 10 years of gravitational wave astronomy with a bumper edition! Read it free online at (pdf): 👉 ligo.org/wp-content/u... #GW10Years #LIGOMagazine @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social

Front cover of LIGO Magazine issue 27. The headline article text reads:
"10 years of Gravitational Wave Astronomy". Two gravitational wave signals are shown in the main image - they are shown as timeseries data which look wiggles. In the top corner, an illustration of a birthday cake is shown - the cake is being distorted as it is sucked into a black hole!

Cover: Main image: GW150914 and GW231123 image by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA/Sascha Rieger. Top inset: GW231123 plot from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. Bottom inset: Masses in the stellar graveyard plot by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA/Aaron Geller/Northwestern. Bottom-left (diagonal): LISA image from OHB.
Top-right corner: GW150914 birthday cake artwork by Storm Colloms.

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EGO and the Virgo Collaboration @egovirgo.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Today we celebrate the eight-year anniversary of a discovery that changed astronomy forever: on this day eight years ago @ligo.org and Virgo detected their first ever neutron star merger, GW170817 💥

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

New results out today from LIGO (@ligo.org) - Virgo (@egovirgo.bsky.social) - KAGRA ! The latest catalogue features more than double the number of probable signals compared to the previous one! #GWTC4 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Check out this interview with Debnandini Mukherjee about #GW231123 !

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Today at Carole Mundell's (@cmundell.bsky.social ) a few familiar objects can be spotted! This mosaic shows a #GravitationalWave signal in time and frequency @uofgravity.bsky.social Check out the story behind the first mosaic here: (page 17) ligo.org/wp-content/u...

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This year it is 10 years since the discovery of #GravitationalWaves in 2015! www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20... @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social #GW150914 #GR24Amaldi16

A speaking giving a talk on a stage with slides projected behind them.

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Today at #GR24Amaldi16, the GWECS team is presenting on supporting early career researches. GWECS is Gravitational Wave Early Career Scientists - find out more at: gwecs.org

A presentation at a scientific conference. The speaker is standing at a podium. The slides are projected behind them. The title of the slides is "Supporting early career researchers".

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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Gravitational-wave detector updates at #GR24Amaldi16

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

In this morning’s plenary at #GR24Amaldi16, Amanda Farah introduces the newest (and most massive and likely most rapidly spinning) @ligo.org - @egovirgo.bsky.social - KAGRA event, #GW231123! Read more about this exceptional event in the discovery paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.08219

Amanda Farah at a podium in front of a slide introducing GW231123

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Find out all about #GW231123 in the @ligo.org - @egovirgo.bsky.social - KAGRA paper - free to read online on #arXiv

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 08/07/2025

After a PhD & postdoc in LIGO, Letizia Sammut joined the Scientific Computing team at the Australian Synchrotron where research spans many disciplines. Read about Letizia's journey in @ligomagazine.bsky.social: ligo.org/wp-content/u... 🔭🧪

Screenshot of LIGO Magazine article "Work After LIGO: From LIGO to ANSTO and a new world of acronyms..." by Letizia Sammut. The image shows a page of the article. The photo is of Letizia standing outside the ANSTO building, which is a large grey and glass building. ANTSO is the Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. It is a sunny day and Letizia is smiling. Image credit: Letizia Sammut

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 02/07/2025

Science Magazine discusses the potential impact of proposed budget cuts on our operation www.science.org/content/arti... by Adrian Cho ☄️⚛️🧪🔭

"The loss would inflict disproportionate damage on the observatory’s scientific reach, scientists say. Researchers would find it more difficult to distinguish a black hole collision in the distant cosmos from a nearby seismic tremor or anything else that shakes the remaining interferometer. A real gravitational wave likely produces signals in both U.S. detectors within 10 milliseconds, the time it takes the ripple to cover the cross-country distance. Without the ability to compare data from the two instruments, detections would be less sure and their rate would fall at least 25%, Reitze says, and possibly much more."

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

New gravitational wave! 🥳🌊👋 The first candidate of Observing Run 4c.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 01/07/2025

Back to nature after gravitational waves. LIGO alumni Sydney Chamberlin tells us all about her job in policy work with The Nature Conservancy. Read the story in @ligomagazine.bsky.social ligo.org/wp-content/u...

A screenshot of LIGO Magazine article "Work After LIGO: Do I miss Physics? Back to Nature" by Sydney Chamberlin. The article is shown with accompanying photo. The photo shows the author Sydney smiling and holding a certificate. She is standing next to an ornate balcony in a grand room with decorative walls and molded plaster.

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

LIGO has two observatories ~3000 km apart - here's why! @ligo.org

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Ever wondered what happens if you fall into a black hole? In the latest #LIGOMagazine, Bartosz Fornal explains "Crossing the event horizon"! With illustrations by Nutsinee Kijbunchoo. Read free online at (pdf, p.22): ligo.org/wp-content/u... @ligo.org

A screenshot of LIGO Magazine article "Crossing the Event Horizon" by Bartosz Fornal. The image shows the first page of the article. There is a photo of the author smiling. The main picture is an illustration by Nutsinee Kijbunchoo showing a drawing of an astronaut in space.

A screenshot of LIGO Magazine article "Crossing the Event Horizon" by Bartosz Fornal. The image shows the second page of the article. The main picture is an illustration by Nutsinee Kijbunchoo. The picture shows a drawing of a two black holes with faces. The smaller black hole is measuring the circumference of the larger black hole with a tap measure. The smaller one says "Your Schwarzschild radius has gotten bigger. What did you eat?" The other black hole looks sheepish and replies "An astronaut."

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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The registration deadline for #GR24Amaldi16 in 29 June We are just finalising the science programme, which is looking awesome (iop.eventsair.com/gr24-amaldi1... We also have a wonderful public prgramme so everyone can learn about our science iop.eventsair.com/gr24-amaldi1... 🔭🧪🎢

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 18/06/2025

Exciting news: The @ligomagazine.bsky.social now has its own Instagram account! Check it out here: www.instagram.com/ligomagazine/

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 11/06/2025

The gang are all here! Today we resumed our fourth observing run with LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO all observing together! You can check detector status live at online.ligo.org ☄️🔭🧪

Detector dashboard showing all five detectors happily in Observing status

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 16/06/2025

Gravitational-wave research skills have many applications in industry. Matt Pitkin's journey "From pulsars to speech enhancement" is just one example. Read all about it in @ligomagazine.bsky.social ligo.org/wp-content/u...

Screenshot of LIGO Magazine article: "Work After LIGO: From Pulsars to Speech Enhancement" by Matt Pitkin. The image shows the article page with columns of text alongside a photo. The photo shows the author Matt Pitkin smiling whilst sat at a desk. On the desk there is a computer, speakers and audio equipment.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 05/06/2025

LIGO and Virgo will resume observing on 11 June joined by KAGRA! All four kilometre-scale gravitational-wave detectors will observe at the same time! Our observing run (O4) has been extended to run until 18 November 2025 and we look forward to many discoveries ligo.org/ligo-virgo-k... ☄️🔭🧪

Aerial views of the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors

Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab; The Virgo collaboration/CCO 1.0; ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 06/06/2025

From gravitational waves to finance, Katarina Martinovic found a "sense of familiarity" when moving from a PhD in gravitational waves to a Quantitative Researcher at Nomura Check out her story in @ligomagazine.bsky.social: ligo.org/wp-content/u...

A screenshot of LIGO Magazine article "Work After LIGO: Choosing a career path in finance" by Katarina Martinovic. The image shows the article page with text columns. The photograph shows Katerina stood outside a Nomura building which is a tall glass building with "Nomura" written vertically. Katerina is smiling and pointing at the lettering.

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LIGO Magazine @ligomagazine.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Check out the LIGO Magazine for #GravitationalWave news, stories behind the science and much more! All issues are free to read online at www.ligo.org/magazine @ligo.org #LIGOMagazine

A screenshot of the front cover of LIGO Magazine issue 26. The main cover image shows a LIGO scientist climbing through part of the LIGO Hanford Detector to check the alignment of a temporary laser. She is in a large grey tube, wearing clean room overalls and is reaching to work on part of the detector. Image credit: Keita Kawabe.

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