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
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Noun
  • As such, quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 June 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 imagery shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, the dusty nebula NGC 3603, the spiral galaxy Messier 94 and the galaxy cluster ZwCl 0024+1652.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 4 July 2026
  • The visit then took us into the future with the star going supernova, putting on a show that no one on Earth has seen for centuries.
    Rob Pegoraro, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • In 2015, X-ray observations noted that the pulsar had experienced a 'spin glitch', which is a small increase in rotation of a neutron star probably caused by some kind of disruption or shifting of material within the neutron star's dense interior.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 July 2026
  • In 2023 a collaboration of radio astronomers reported tiny deviations in the timing of these flashes from dozens of pulsars in the Milky Way.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • May's full Blue Moon put on a dazzling display over the weekend, flooding the night sky with moonlight as the red supergiant star Antares glowed nearby.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 June 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
  • For corporate and investor decision-makers the variable that now dominates AI infrastructure economics is not model performance or chip cost curves.
    Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • But consumer demand is the big variable impacting companies’ gross margin, Sole noted.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • When this phenomenon happens, all the matter in the neutron star fuses into one big atom, with a density of about a million billion g/cc.
    Stephen DiKerby, The Conversation, 29 June 2026
  • Hopefully, this will help determine whether they’re sparked by an eruption from a single neutron star, or when two of these tiny but massive bodies collide.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • What immediately stood out about WD 1856 b was how close its orbit is to its white dwarf host.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 July 2026
  • The planet either warmed up while engulfed during the red giant phase, or began heating as gravity pulled it closer to the resultant white dwarf.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026

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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 11 Jul. 2026.

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