The Music of the Spheres: The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Science

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The LIGO results are among the greatest experimental achievements of all times.

• Time and again scientists have compared this feat to Galileo pointing his telescope to the sky, offering instead an 'ear' to the cosmos.
• After the remarkable landmark of detection, the physics community will soon turn into the study of the properties of the sources, addressing fundamental questions in astrophysics and cosmology.
• A combined numerical and analytic effort to tackle the binary problem is of paramount importance in light of the nascent program of multi-messenger astronomy.