Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Observatories that combine light, waves, and particles.
5 entries.
LIGO Hanford
Gravitational-wave observatory · United States (Washington)
LIGO Hanford in Washington State is one of the two US Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory detectors that made the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015.
LIGO Livingston
Gravitational-wave observatory · United States (Louisiana)
LIGO Livingston in Louisiana is the second US LIGO detector; together with LIGO Hanford it detected the first gravitational waves from merging black holes.
Virgo
Gravitational-wave observatory · Italy
Virgo is a European gravitational-wave detector near Pisa, Italy, that observes together with LIGO to localise sources on the sky.
IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Neutrino observatory · Antarctica
IceCube embeds thousands of light sensors in a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice to detect high-energy neutrinos from the cosmos.
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
OperationalGamma Ray · 2008
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope surveys the entire gamma-ray sky every few hours, studying pulsars, blazars, and gamma-ray bursts.