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After safely landing the Atlantis, NASA has decided to get back to their usual duties and now they have decided to establish a new office that will help them investigate some of the universe’s most unusual phenomena like dark energy, black holes and cosmic microwave background radiation.

Einstein Probes Office will be housed in the Beyond Einstein Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. If you are wondering that the Beyond Einstein Program is, well, it consists of five proposed missions. They are two major observatories and three smaller probes and in fact NASA is working on some of them already.

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will determine gravitational waves in the Milky Way and beyond and it would be doing all this while orbiting the Sun. Then there is the Constellation-X, which would view matter diminishing into super massive black holes.

As of now a National Research Council committee will determine which of the Beyond Einstein missions should be developed and launched first. The missions will help scientists and researchers get more insight into the nature of dark energy, the physics of the Big Bang and the distribution and types of black holes in the universe.

Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe will serve as an inspiration for the Beyond Einstein spacecraft as the program has been made specifically to discover key information to help answer elementary questions about the origin and evolution of the universe.