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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👀 Check out this episode of @esa.int's Expedition Sound podcast series that lets us sink into the depths of space and explore the mysterious effects of gravity. ✨ Discover more about this podcast here: www.esa.int/.../The_dept... Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What do you do when your observatory is simply too big for Earth? 🌍 You send it into space! 🚀 LISA will be the first space-based observatory for gravitational waves, using three spacecraft separated by millions of kilometres. 🎥 @drbecky.bsky.social explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JvI...

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The new observatory so big it can’t be built on Earth

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What do black holes and comic books have in common? More than you'd think. 📖 Read it for free: blackholecomicbook.com

A starry space scene with a glowing orange-black figure representing the black hole and its accretion disk, a small character and a floating figure at left, and the text “BLACK HOLES” in orange letters.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 14/09/2026

Happy birthday #GW150914! 11 years ago today, we caught our first gravitational wave, and founded a new type of astronomy A decade later, we now have hundreds of observations! 🔭🧪🎂

Classic plot showing GW150914. Filtered data from LIGO Livingston and LIGO Hanford are shown, both show the characteristic signal of a binary black hole. Crucially, data from the two observatories agree, indicating a real signal.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

JuanPa is a Payload System Engineer at the European Space Agency @esa.int working on LISA Systems Engineering.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 14/08/2026

Feel like reminiscing about the #EuropeanSolarEclipse? We've got you covered. Check out our summary, featuring photos from the ground and from space, as well as a look-back at our in-person event in León and live broadcast from Javalambre 👇 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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A look back at the 2026 total solar eclipse

On 12 August 2026, Europe witnessed the first total solar eclipse in over two decades. Millions of people were awed by the Moon completely covering the Sun's bright disc, briefly turning day into nigh...

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Elena Maria Rossi is a Full Professor at Leiden University working on Massive Black Hole Binaries, Galactic Binaries and Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

✨ LISA and ET Team Up to Catch Cosmic Echoes!

Illustration of LISA space mission with three spacecraft forming a triangle with red laser beams, two black circles representing black holes, and a cross-section of Earth showing underground Einstein Telescope facility.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

LISA Symposium Poster Session pictures are here! 🚀 Many of you were waiting for them, thanks for your patience and let’s all thank our amazing photographer Dennis Henry! 📸 More pictures coming soon! #LISASymposium2026 #LISAmission #nasa #esa

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🎉 Today marks the completion of the nominal science phase of the LISA Technology Package aboard LISA Pathfinder. 🛰️ 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgqq... #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission

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Lisa Pathfinder mission overview

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tracking water with LISA technology: GRACE-C, successor to GRACE & GRACE-FO, carries a laser ranging interferometer with LISA Pathfinder heritage. Sensing nm-scale shifts in satellite separation, it maps Earth's moving water - ice, groundwater, sea level. 🌍🌎🌏 #LISASymposium2026 #NASA

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Meet Taiji, a Chinese LISA-class observatory proposal: 3 spacecraft, heliocentric, ~3M km arms, mHz band, early-2030s launch. Together with LISA, it would have a ~100M km baseline for sharper localization. Demo stages funded; full mission awaits approval. #LISASymposium2026 #ICTP-AP #UCAS #CAS

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Halfway through #LISASymposium2026 and the energy's anything but halved! Brilliant talks and an engaged community. Let's chase them gravitational waves! Here's the crew and energy at midpoint - ready for round two! #lisasymposium2026

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

LISA's Phase Measurement System: Quadrant Photo Receivers + Phasemeter tracking science, reference & test-mass channels and syncing clocks across 2.5 million kilometer, the backbone of Time Delay Interferometry (TDI) noise suppression. #nasa #LISASymposium2026 #esa #gravitationalwaves #lisamission

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

WE WILL BE LIVE IN A MOMENT! Day 3 of the 16th International LISA Symposium: Plenary Session 5 (Waveforms and Interferometry) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnz9... Plenary Session 6 (Sirens, Signatures and Global Fit) www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1xy... #lisasymposium2026

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16th LISA Symposium - Plenary Session 5

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Brilliant and fun overview of Gravitational Waves and LISA ... and explosions. Big explosions! Lead NASA LISA Project Scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Ira Thorpe, explained the importance of LISA to a broad audience and answered questions from the audience. #lisasymposium2026

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

LISA Symposium Public Lecture ... Listening to the Dark Universe with Gravitational Waves and LISA ... by Lead NASA LISA Project Scientist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Ira Thorpe. 6:30pm at Stamp Student Union Hoff Theater (Ground Floor) #lisasymposium2026 #lisamission #nasa #esa

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

LISA will predict when massive black hole binaries will merge by detecting the gravitational waves created by the black holes orbiting each other. (🕳️➕🕳️🟰🌊) At #LISASymposium2026, John Ruan (Bishop's University) talks through the challenge of detecting their electromagnetic counterparts. (🕳️➕🕳️🟰💥)

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A few impressions from our LISA Symposium Day 1 Plenary Speakers, captured by our NASA Goddard photographer Dennis Henry 📷 lisa-2026.astro.umd.edu #nasa #lisamission #lisasymposium2026 #esa

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🛰️🔭⚕️🩺 Yesterday's highlights include the medical side effects of gravitational wave exposure as presented by ESA Scientist Oliver Jennrich: www.youtube.com/live/9YCgx1F... You can watch yesterday's and today's Plenary Sessions at www.youtube.com/@LISAcommuni... #LISASymposium2026 #xkcd

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Saavik ‘Careful of the Ankle’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

TRLs mentioned in one of today’s plenaries, but no mention of how that translates to Space Unicorns! See TRL5 & TRL6… @granttremblay.com @lisacommunity.bsky.social #LISASymposium2026

NASA Technology Readiness Levels
TRL 1: What if there were Unicorns
TRL 2: We have drawn a Unicorn
TRL 3: unicorn_v8_final_final.cad
TRL 4: We have placed a horn on a horse in our lab
TRL 5: We took the horse outside
TRL 6: We're now calling the horse a Unicorn
TRL 7: We're pretty sure the Unicorn might survive if we launch it into space
TRL 8: 0mg it survived
TRL 9: Our reference design incorporates high-heritage Space Unicorns

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

16th International LISA Symposium June 21-26, 2026 Plenary 3 (LISA Science Team, Optical Metrology System & more): www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyUg... Plenary 4 (EMRIs, MBHB Mergers, LECS): www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7U_... Schedule: lisa-2026.astro.umd.edu/schedule.html #LISASymposium2026

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

GRATTIS brings precision gravitational wave sensors to Earth, simplifying LISA's gravitational reference sensors into compact, robust instruments. This opens a new way to weigh our planet, tracking melting ice, shifting groundwater, and rising seas, mapping climate change & more. #LISASymposium2026

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Gravitational waves carry information from before light could travel freely, when the universe was an opaque plasma. This opens a window onto new physics beyond known laws, and perhaps the very origin of spacetime, whether it began in a Big Bang or bounced from an earlier phase. #LISASymposium2026

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In addition to the main org and social media teams, we’re collaborating with the science communicators to cover our symposium! Anna and Simon are driven young specialists in the field of the gravitational wave detectors. Tag along to stay informed about announcements! #lisasymposium2026 #nasa #esa

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Great insight into the engineering of the LISA spacecraft this morning from ESA engineer Juan Pablo Rodríguez García. 🚀 #LISASymposium2026

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

16th International LISA Symposium June 21-26, 2026 Schedule: lisa-2026.astro.umd.edu/schedule.html Follow live: www.youtube.com/@LISAcommuni... #LISASymposium2026

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

🥳 Ten years since the Science Programme Committee unanimously voted for the extension of the LISA Pathfinder mission until May 2017. 👀 Find out more about LPF: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j0Y... #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

🎉 Today marks 10 years since the publication of the very first paper from LISA Pathfinder mission: "Sub-Femto-g Free Fall for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories: LISA Pathfinder Results". A milestone that launched a decade of discovery and exploration beyond Earth.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Congratulations to the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration on the release of their latest gravitational wave catalog. The Gravitational Wave Transient Catalogue-5.0 (GWTC-5) includes 161 new events detected between April 2024 and January 2025, further advancing the field of GW astronomy.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Hello there! On this special occasion, we want to introduce a new kind of Force users in the galaxy: micro‑Newton thrusters.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Valeriya Korol on a paper by Valeriya Korol & Andrei Igoshev: "Probing the millisecond pulsar origin of the 𝜸-ray excess in the Galactic centre with LISA". Paper link 👉 doi.org/10.1051/0004... Coming up is a summary of the paper.

The graphic shows some details about the talk and paper. Title: "Probing the millisecond pulsar origin of the 𝜸-ray excess in the Galactic centre with LISA". Presentor: Valeriya Korol. Authors: Valeriya Korol & Andrei Igoshev. Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202557265. A plot from the paper is also displayed showing chirp mass against gravitational-wave frequency.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Léon Vidal on a paper by Léon Vidal, Hubert Halloin, Nam Dam Quang, Pierre Prat and Antoine Petiteau: "Aliased laser noise and TDI coupling with LISA On table", which can be found here 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The graphic shows the details of the talk:
Presentor: Léon Vidal.
Paper authors: Léon Vidal, Hubert Halloin, Nam Dam Quang, Pierre Prat and Antoine Petiteau.
Paper title: "Aliased laser noise and TDI coupling with LISA On table"
Paper link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ae134d/pdf
Plus an image from the paper which shows a diagram of LISA.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

#LISACommunityTalks Shashwat Singh recently presented a paper by Shashwat Singh, Christian Chapman-Bird, Christopher Berry, John Veitch: "Constraints on Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral population + Revealing Massive Black Hole astrophysics: hierarchical inference with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals"

The graphic shows details about the talk and paper.
Title: "Constraints on Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral population + Revealing Massive Black Hole astrophysics: hierarchical inference with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals"
Presentor: Shashwat Singh.
Authors: Shashwat Singh, Christian Chapman-Bird, Christopher Berry, John Veitch:
There is also a plot from the paper shown.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Sviatoslav Khukhlaev on a paper by Sviatoslav Khukhlaev, Stanislav Babak: "Assessing signal crosstalk between extreme-mass-ratio inspirals and Galactic binaries in LISA data", which can be found here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.20062

The graphic shows the title, presentor, and authors. Title: "Assessing signal crosstalk between extreme-mass-ratio inspirals and Galactic binaries in LISA data". Presented by Sviatoslav Khukhlaev. Authors: Sviatoslav Khukhlaev, Stanislav Babak. Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20062
The image shows a plot from the paper.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Devin Becker on a paper by Devin Becker, Scott Hughes, Gaurav Khanna: "Gravitational waves from the late inspiral, transition, and plunge of small-mass-ratio eccentric binaries", which can be found here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21897

The graphic shows the title of the talk and the authors. Title: "Gravitational waves from the late inspiral, transition, and plunge of small-mass-ratio eccentric binaires". Presented by Devin Becker. Authors: Devin Becker, Scott Hughes, Gaurav Khanna.
A plot from the paper is shown.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Maria Isfan on a paper by Maria-Catalina Isfan, Laurentiu Caramete, Ana Caramete, Daniel Tonoiu, Alexandru Nicolin-Zaczek: "Quantum computing tools for fast detection of gravitational waves in the context of LISA space mission"

The image shows the title of the presentation and the authors of the paper. Title: "Quantum computing tools for fast detection of gravitational waves in the context of the LISA space mission". Presentor: Maria-Catalina Isfan. Authors: Maria-Catalina Isfan, Laurentiu Caramete, Ana Caramete, Daniel Tonoiu, Alexandru Nicolin-Zaczek.
The image shows a flow chart comparing quantum computing with classical computing.

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

In this edition, we hear from some of the people involved in paper writing & analysis for three interesting Observing Run 4 (O4) events, we go on the hunt for core-collapse supernova and celebrate the 10th anniversary of LISA Pathfinder (@lisacommunity.bsky.social).

Showing the title of one of the articles "O4: Cornucopia or results continues!"
The background shows an artistic representation of a binary black hole merger with gravitational waves. It shows two black shapes in the middle representing black holes with spiraling blue rings around them representing gravitational waves. This artistic representation of GW250114 by Maggie Chiang for Simons Foundation.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Stephen Taylor is a faculty member at Vanderbilt University and a member of the LISA Science Team specializing in data-analysis challenges and opportunities. #HumansOfLISA #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission

Stephen Taylor LISA Science Team Faculty Member

Stephen is a Faculty Member at Vanderbilt University

Stephen is working on gravitational-wave data analysis and astrophysics

"I am a member of the LISA Science Team specializing in data-analysis challenges and opportunities"

Stephen's hobbies and interests "I love hiking with my wife, Erika. I'm a huge reader of non-fiction history books, and sci-fi novels. I also unironically love cheesy 1980's action movies".

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#LISACommunityTalks #LISACommunity hosted a talk by Jillian Bellovary on a paper by Jillian Bellovary, Yuantong Luo, Tom Quinn, Ferah Munshi, Michael Tremmel, James Wadsley: "Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals in Milky Way Galaxies" 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2411.12117 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Showing a LISA Community Talks graphic. Displayed are the title of the paper and the authors (both shown in the post text). The image shows a picture of a spiral galaxy.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Nathan Steinle on a paper by Anuraag Reddy, Nathan Steinle, Samar Safi-Harb, Jo-Anne Brown: "Multi-messenger window into galactic magnetic fields and black hole mergers with LISA", which can be found here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2504.18986

Graphic shows the title of the paper, the presentor and the authors.
Title: Multi-messenger window into galactic magnetic fields and black hole mergers with LISA.
Presented by: Nathan Steinle
Authors: Anuraag Reddy, Nathan Steinle, Samar Safi-Harb, Jo-Anne Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18986

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Today we celebrate International Women's Day! From the LISA DEI Committee. #IWD2026

An image celebrating International Women's Day.
The bottom part of the image shows the silhouettes of 6 women. The top part of the image shows the text "Happy Women's Day from the LISA DEI Committee - 8th March 2026"
Around the text there are little cartoons showing stars, black holes, and the LISA constellation.
This image has been adapted from a free Canva design by Berru Doğa Nas.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

✨LISA Pathfinder officially began its science operations phase 10 years ago. Data collection continued through mid-June, followed by the start of science operations for NASA’s Disturbance Reduction System. 🛰️See LISA Pathfinder's journey here: youtu.be/GM8ZGJm-S7s?... #LPF10anniversary #LISAmission

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LISA Pathfinder Operations: commissioning and operations

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Thomas Kupfer @thomkupfer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

How can we best observe the most compact binaries with orbital periods as short as a few minutes, close to their final merger? They are strong supernova Ia progenitor candidates crucial to cosmology and are the strongest Galactic gravitational wave sources in the @lisacommunity.bsky.social regime 🔭

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

We mourn the passing of Professor Mike Cruise, who has died at the age of 78. The LISA Consortium extends its sincere condolences to Professor Cruise’s family, friends, and colleagues. Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.

Professor Cruise played a leading role in the development of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission and was instrumental in strengthening the United Kingdom’s contribution to this landmark international endeavour. A distinguished scientist devoted to fundamental research, he made significant contributions to gravitational wave science and to the advancement of space instrumentation. An accomplished educator and advocate of knowledge transfer, Professor Cruise authored the respected
textbook The Principles of Space Instrument Design and mentored generations of students and researchers. Even after formally retiring from the University of Birmingham in 2012, he remained actively
engaged with ESA, the RAS, the UK Space Agency, and the wider gravitational wave community.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 18/02/2026

Our next LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA webinar will introduce the analysis methods used for our #GWTC4 results (paper arxiv.org/abs/2508.18081) 19 February at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Register for free wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🔭 ☄️ ⚛️ 🧪

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GWTC-4.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients

19 February 2026 from 15:00 UTC

Background image: An artistic representation of a binary black hole merger by Aurore Simonnet

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

10 years ago, the two LISA Pathfinder test masses were successfully released into free-fall The release was a very delicate operation, and the technology required a great deal of research and design, so everyone was anxious! youtu.be/wUZ81wItsZI?... #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission 🔭🛰️

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The path to LISA: The core of LPF and LISA – free falling test masses

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 13/02/2026

Gravitational waves constantly cross our Solar System. They travel in the fabric of spacetime, and, until recently, they did so undetected. But advances in technology have made measurements possible on the ground and, with our upcoming LISA mission, from space too 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭

Artist’s impression of two neutron stars spiralling towards each other just before merging. The collision of these dense, compact objects produces gravitational waves – fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

What an exciting day for #GravitationalWaves! Congratulations on an amazing decade of discovery! @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA #GW10Years

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