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Marta Burgay, Delphine Perrodin, and Andrea Possenti were part of the international team that discovered and monitored the rare phenomenon of the "radio burst."

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The season of shows at the Planetarium of the Cagliari Astronomical Observatory resumes, curated by Sabrina Milia and Noemi Iacolina

A Nobel-worthy result, announced today by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, writes INAF President Nichi D'Amico, congratulating the international team that directly detected gravitational waves for the first time. A result that inaugurates a new "channel" for observing the Universe.

It's confirmed, gravitational waves have been detected. The discovery was just announced during the press conference held by the LIGO collaboration in Washington.

Scheduled for tomorrow, February 11, at 4:30 PM, an international LIGO collaboration press conference. Will the discovery of the century be announced?

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Two new intermediate-mass black holes (and 16 new possible candidates in the category) have been discovered by the research group coordinated by Ivan Zolotukhin from the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP) in Toulouse, France.