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Ten years of gravitational-wave astronomy

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-09-19 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Ten years ago humankind achieved the first direct observation of gravitational waves. I give some personal recollections of that first detection. I also present an incomplete summary of what we have learned since then, and some speculations on what we may learn in the future.

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@article{arxiv.2509.10395,
  title  = {Ten years of gravitational-wave astronomy},
  author = {Emanuele Berti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.10395},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Invited contribution to an upcoming special edition of the Portuguese Physical Society's "Gazeta de F\'isica" dedicated to gravitational waves. v2: Fixed a typo