The promising dawn of multimessenger astronomy

• 来源期刊: 科学通报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（1）
• 页码范围: 2-4
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The observation of a gravitational wave (GW) emitted from the merger of binary black holes [1] won a well-deserved Nobel Prize this year for the leaders of the Laser lnterferometry Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO),and raised hopes that future gravitational wave detections involving matter and not just vacuum (black hole) solutions of the Einstein field equations might be made in coincidence with other electromagnetic or neutrino signals.Although viewed as difficult and probably requiring substantial longer-term improvement of technology,such multimessenger astronomy was deemed a "holy grail" having potentially momentous implications.