supercluster

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Recent Examples of supercluster Venice features a radical redesign with up to 512 threads per package, specifically optimized for the orchestration layers of AI superclusters. — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2026 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 The companies aim to power Meta's Prometheus supercluster computing system. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 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 See All Example Sentences for supercluster
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
Noun
  • The supermassive black hole in question is powering a type of quasar called a blazar.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Aug. 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
  • The final collapse results in a supernova explosion and creates a neutron star with a mass between one and two times that of the sun.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • If Chicago had not gone full supernova on Sunday, Baltimore’s offense would be the biggest fantasy story.
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That means the measurements provided by pulsar timing arrays could help determine how abundant heavy black hole seeds were in the early universe.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The pulsar ties back to early research on the phenomenon, which had scientists wondering if their signals were signs of alien life.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 31 July 2026
Noun
  • The observations show the red supergiant has an atmosphere with a temperature of around 3,680 degrees Fahrenheit (2,030 degrees Celsius), but possesses at least two regions even hotter than this.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Located 7,200 light-years away, Cygnus X-1 features not only a black hole — the first one ever identified more than a half-century ago — but a blue supergiant star, its constant companion.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 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
Noun
  • When an upper bound on a variable equals a lower bound on the same variable, no doubt remains about its true value.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
  • That development is the variable that will push and pull the USMNT pool in different directions.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Scientists have long suspected there is indeed a pathway for a white dwarf to become a neutron star.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Hubble’s images reveal an intricate web of gas and dust spreading outward from the explosion’s center, where a rapidly spinning neutron star remains.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • However, some stars collapse to form a white dwarf composed of oxygen, neon and magnesium.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The white dwarf emits radiation and produces a giant gas bubble—the lion’s face—that destroys dust in its path.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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