Multi-messenger channel
Gravitational Waves + Light
Observing a source in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic light — the channel that transformed astronomy when GW170817 was caught in both, pinning down where a kilonova came from and confirming that neutron-star mergers forge heavy elements.
Highlights
- ›The channel that founded gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy
Detectors, messengers & sources
Knowledge connections
- Associated withMulti-Messenger Astronomy
- Associated withBinary Neutron Star Merger
- Associated withMulti-messenger astronomy
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- LIGO Scientific CollaborationLIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration
Direct detections of gravitational waves from compact-object mergers.