Los agujeros negros y las ondas del Doctor Einstein

TL;DR

This paper reviews the scientific developments leading to LIGO's detection of gravitational waves, confirming the existence of black holes through advances in relativity, numerical simulations, and detector technology.

Contribution

It summarizes the key theoretical and technological progress that enabled the first direct detection of gravitational waves and black holes.

Findings

Detection confirms black holes' existence.

Advances in numerical relativity enabled simulation of black hole mergers.

Development of gravitational wave detectors was crucial.

Abstract

We describe the main scientific developments that lead LIGO project to the detection of the gravitational waves: general relativity, black holes and gravitational waves predictions; numerical relativity and the collision and coalescence simulations of binary black holes and the development of different kind of gravitational wave detectors. Most important, this detection is confirming the existence of the enigmatic black holes.