Beyond Einstein Program to Probe Cosmic Mysteries

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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt MD, will house the agency’s new Beyond Einstein Program which seeks to investigate strange cosmic phenomena, such as dark energy, black holes, and microwave background radiation.

The Beyond Einstein Program proposes five new missions of 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.