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Recent Examples of supercluster
The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2025
This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
The fluctuations reflected variations in the universe’s density, and the denser regions would later coalesce into galaxies and even larger-scale structures of superclusters of galaxies lining up like a cosmic spider web.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Laniakea comprises four supercluster branches totaling over 500 groups and clusters with more than 100,000 individual galaxies.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
Unlike clusters and groups, superclusters are not gravitationally bound and have not yet completely collapsed.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
In subcortical areas, there also appears to be a supercluster of cells called splatter neurons that control innate behaviors and physiological functions.
—Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2025
This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
The fluctuations reflected variations in the universe’s density, and the denser regions would later coalesce into galaxies and even larger-scale structures of superclusters of galaxies lining up like a cosmic spider web.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Laniakea comprises four supercluster branches totaling over 500 groups and clusters with more than 100,000 individual galaxies.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
Unlike clusters and groups, superclusters are not gravitationally bound and have not yet completely collapsed.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
In subcortical areas, there also appears to be a supercluster of cells called splatter neurons that control innate behaviors and physiological functions.
—Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
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The best example of the heights such precision can reach may be Gaia’s tour de force determination of the solar system’s acceleration with respect to a vast, sky-encompassing field of quasars.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
18 June 2025
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The leading candidates included massive galaxies, quasars powered by black holes, and small, low-mass galaxies.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
19 June 2025
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But while supernovas occur only once, a nova can happen again and again.—
Chad Murphy,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Among the Rubin Observatory’s many targets, supernovas are perhaps the most scientifically tantalizing.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Radio signals from space are not an uncommon occurrence; in fact, telescopes pick up signals all the time coming from pulsars, black holes, massive galaxies, stars and various other cosmic phenomena.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Overlaying Chandra's X-ray data (shown in bright blue) with the radio data reveals the likely cause of the fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out pulses of radiation at regular intervals.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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The red supergiant star Antares will be visible in the night sky on June 10 or 11.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
5 June 2025
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Red Supergiant Stars Many of the stars in the Dragon Arc are red supergiants, similar to Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion and Aldebaran in Taurus, both of which are visible now in the eastern night sky immediately after sunset.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
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Recorded live at the Lincoln Center, the band plays a bossa-nova take on the song while Gaga sings solo, wearing one of Cher’s own wigs.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Yet many estate plans are written as if these variables will remain constant forever.—
Patti Brennan,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Another variable complicating the federal workers’ case is the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the authority of federal judges to grant universal injunctions.—
Gabriella Fine,
Baltimore Sun,
8 July 2025
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Because of their curious ability to transmute into photons in the presence of strong magnetic fields, any place that features strong fields—think neutron stars or even the solar corona—could produce extra radiation due to axions.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 June 2025
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Gravitational waves are distortions in the fabric of space-time caused by the motion of massive objects like black holes or neutron stars.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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Astronomers traced a previous detection of a long-period transient, announced in March, to a white dwarf that’s closely orbiting a small, cool red dwarf star.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
28 May 2025
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Crucially, the white dwarf is not destroyed, and the 80-year-long process begins again.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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