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Four hundred years ago Galileo revolutionised the way we see the universe through his telescope. Since then fascinating yet bizarre astrophysical phenomena reveal our capricious universe. Using electromagnetic observations we have been discovering exciting events at different wavelengths. Surprisingly, the universe is eager to send us information through different kinds of waves which probe the extreme realm of physics from the birth of a star to its death. Gravitational radiation as space time waves is a new key to see our universe, especially events that are opaque to electromagnetic radiation. From a theoretical solution of Einstein’s equations, we learned the existence of gravitational waves and how they carry the information properties of their sources. In this talk I will give an overview of gravitational waves as a new tool in astronomy, from waveform modelling of binary evolution to merger, and finally the connection to multi messenger astronomy.
