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Recent News

NRW state parliament unanimously supports Einstein Telescope

November 12, 2020

Gravitation and physics during Advent

November 03, 2020

At the end of the year, get the latest from the world of gravitational physics! Comfortably from home and of course exciting, informative and understandable. The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) and the ...

Dozens of new gravitational-wave events in six months

October 29, 2020

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have published updates to their catalog of gravitational-wave signals, their astrophysical implications and more stringent tests of general relativity. The Gravitational-Wave Transient ...

Thomas Oppermann passed away at the age of 66

October 26, 2020

Super heavyweight and flyweight in a cosmic dance

October 22, 2020

After more than two decades, an international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover has identified a Galactic “mystery source” of gamma rays: a heavy neutron star with a ...

Quantum Valley Lower Saxony

October 02, 2020

The newly founded alliance “Quantum Valley Lower Saxony” is intended to rapidly advance basic research and industrial knowledge transfer. Lower Saxony's top research has good chances in the global race for quantum technologies. The first meeting of ...