supercluster

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Recent Examples of supercluster The project timeline The supercomputer’s construction was kicked off after xAI acquired a 1M sq ft warehouse in Memphis, along with adjacent land, forming the physical footprint for the next phase of the supercluster. Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026 Enterprise customers don't need dedicated GPU superclusters at this scale. Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 15 Jan. 2026 The companies aim to power Meta's Prometheus supercluster computing system. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026 Presidents are routinely briefed on major economic data reports the night before they … Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced deals Friday with three nuclear energy companies to help power its AI infrastructure, including the tech giant’s forthcoming Prometheus supercluster. Julia Shapero, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2026 In the early 2010s, Courtois was part of the team that discovered and described the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs. Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
Noun
  • This region is referred to as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), and its bright emissions are seen on Earth as a quasar.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The team spotted the distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole, using observations from the Subaru Telescope.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • These new images reveal the changing clouds of gases being expelled from the site of a powerful supernova that exploded in the year 1054.
    Brett Tingley, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • While the supernova’s brightness peaked at around Day 50, astronomers noticed something strange.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • And magnetars are the most extreme of all: most of them are newborn pulsars that possess magnetic fields up to 1,000 times stronger than normal.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
  • As the pulsar spins, these beams sweep across the cosmos like the beams of light from a lighthouse.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • And that’s the key variable driving his OPOY odds.
    Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The most dangerous variable, instructors often say, is not the snowpack.
    Jane Sadowsky, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The solution was to break the problem down, considering each neutron star individually, and its companion as just a source of gravitational tides.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
  • When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Additionally, by using computer simulations, the researchers were able to determine the future of this 3+1 star system, ending up as just two white dwarf stellar remnants.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Finally, its now-inert core contracts down to form a white dwarf, while the prior ejecta get heated up and ionized, creating a planetary nebula.
    Big Think, Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026

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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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