First International Latin American Conference on Gravitational Waves: 10 years since first detectionSeptember 15–19 2025 at INPE Sao Paulo
First International Latin American Conference on Gravitational Waves: 10 years since first detection
September 15–19 2025 at INPE Sao Paulo
A decade ago, science witnessed an extraordinary milestone: the first direct detection of gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity in 1915. These ripples in spacetime, generated by extreme cosmic events such as black hole mergers, remained merely a theoretical prediction until September 14, 2015, when the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) experiment captured this historic signal.