Comment by knice

A team from UC Santa Cruz used the data from the Swope telescope in Chile to locate the source of the gravitation waves and observe the light from the event. The data provides evidence of how gold and other heavy elements formed in the universe.

http://reports.news.ucsc.edu/neutron-star-merger/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5EkI5qbYYc

Full disclosure: I work at UC Santa Cruz and built the site linked above. :-)