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Recent Examples of supercluster
An enormous supercluster made up from over 20 individual galaxy clusters hiding behind our dusty Milky Way is even larger than astronomers had thought, affecting the motion through space of all the galaxies and galaxy clusters in our corner of the cosmos.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 May 2026
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
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
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 May 2026
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
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
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Blazars are a type of quasar, the regions at the hearts of galaxies that host feeding supermassive black holes and discharge powerful jets of radiation.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 May 2026
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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
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The models specifically reproduced how said particles would interact with the expanding shell of material shrugged off by the supernova's dying progenitor star.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 May 2026
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But that word, clear, comes from the Latin for brightness or splendor, and that bursts from Christian’s work with supernova force.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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The source is a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by the pulsar PSR J1849-0001, located in the constellation Aquila.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026
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That means a pulsar doesn't have to be perfectly aligned with Earth to be observed via its radio emissions.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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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
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For instance, there are more than 30 supergiant fields, each holding 5 billion barrels or more of oil, around the Persian Gulf.—
Scott L. Montgomery,
The Conversation,
7 Apr. 2026
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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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To get a separate measure of how unusual this is, the researchers placed 8 million novas around the center of the galaxy, with the distribution being random but biased to match the galaxy's brightness under the assumption that novas will be more frequent in areas with more stars.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
27 Sep. 2024
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The study also used patients who had not taken migraine preventive medications for at least the past three months, Anderson noted, reducing the potential confounding variable of medication use.—
Stephanie Anderson Witmer,
Health,
2 June 2026
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Remote work villain A closer look at who is and who isn’t finding jobs points to remote work as a powerful variable.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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Since then, along with its fellow detectors Virgo and KAGRA, LIGO has detected gravitational waves from many mergers between pairs of black holes, pairs of ultra-dense neutron stars — and even mixed mergers between a black hole and a neutron star.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
1 June 2026
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Gamma rays are the most energetic type of light rays, typically marking the last gasp of a dying star or the cataclysmic clap of two neutron stars.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 May 2026
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This would trigger explosive outbursts on the white dwarf, which would be seen across the galaxy as a nova eruption.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
3 June 2026
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In the center is a white dwarf, the dense, compact core of a dying star.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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