GREENBELT, Md., July 3 (UPI) -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will house the agency's new Einstein Probes Office.
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the office will study strange cosmic phenomena, such as dark energy, black holes and microwave background radiation.
The new division, to be housed in Goddard's Beyond Einstein Program Office, will facilitate NASA's future medium-class science missions to investigate profound cosmic mysteries.
The Beyond Einstein Program consists of five proposed missions: two major observatories and three smaller probes. Technology development is under way on the proposed observatories. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna would orbit the sun and measure gravitational waves, while the Constellation-X observatory would peer at matter falling into supermassive black holes.
The probes are planned to investigate the nature of dark energy, the physics of the Big Bang and the distribution and types of black holes in the universe.
The Beyond Einstein Program is designed to provide key information to help answer fundamental questions about the origin and evolution of the universe.
