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Resumen: Ten years after the historic first detection of gravitational waves, I will explore how this new window into the Universe has transformed our understanding of the Universe. I will review the remarkable progress of the global LIGO Virgo and KAGRA network over the past decade, highlighting some of its most important breakthrough results. I will discuss the newly released GWTC-5 catalog, which brings the number of gravitational-wave signals to nearly 400 and provides an unprecedented view of the populations of black holes and neutron stars. I will highlight the implications for astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics of these observations, and conclude with the prospects for future discoveries with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors: Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer and LISA.