Abstract:
The LIGO detection of gravitational waves emitted by the coalescence of binary black holes has opened up a new era of gravitational-wave astronomy and cosmology. We discuss the formation of black holes and the produced gravitational waves in the Universe, and how we can use gravitational waves to probe the black holes and the early Universe.
PS. We will live-stream the talk at 1F Auditorium of Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica.