# (Almost) All You Need to Know About Gravitational Wave Physics

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme,2016-2017
- Speaker: Vitor Cardoso
- Year: 2016
- Level: Graduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3002397)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

This year marks the centenary of two pivotal breakthroughs in physics: the discovery of the Schwarzschild solution, describing a non-rotating black hole, and Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves (GWs). The GW150914 event is the first direct detection of GWs, most likely the first observation of black-hole binaries, and certainly a fitting celebration. Gravitational waves offer a unique glimpse into the unseen universe in different ways, and allow us to test the basic tenets of General Relativity, some of which have been taken for granted without observations: are gravitons massless? Are black holes the simplest possible macroscopic objects? do event horizons and black holes really exist, or is their formation halted by some as-yet unknown mechanism? In these lectures, we will describe the anatomy of a GW event, with particular emphasis on how to compute gravitational-waves from black hole systems and what kind of information such waves carry..

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## Lectures

1. [(Almost) All You Need to Know About Gravitational Wave Physics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3002397/40462f3abf6e), 1 h 13 min (CERN's player)