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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 scientists found Big Wheel near a quasar, which is a powerful and active supermassive black hole, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).—
Larissa G. Capella,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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This effect produced four distinct images of the same quasar in a cross-like pattern around the central galaxy, often referred to as an Einstein Cross.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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These elements are thought to form through a series of nuclear reactions known as the rapid neutron capture process, or r-process, which was long theorized to occur only under extreme conditions such as those in supernovas or neutron star mergers.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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Studies of the Cosmic Radiation Background—the echo of the first light from the Big Bang—gives one result, while measurements of how fast relatively close objects like supernovae are moving away from us suggests a faster rate.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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There’s also that classic album cover, which Rolling Stone named as the greatest ever — a haunting image of a pulsar, lonely out in space, 978 light years away.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2025
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Radio pulsars, by comparison, produce much shorter signals — often mere seconds.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Since this star system of a white dwarf (the dense core of a dead star) and a red supergiant (an expanding cooling star) is 3,000 light-years away, whatever is about to happen did so 3,000 years ago.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Young Thug has been teasing Uy Scuti — which takes its name from a red supergiant star 5,900 light years away — for about a month now.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 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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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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With so many options and variables, Feldman said the choice comes down to individual needs and preferences.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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The bonuses are also influenced by other variables, including in-game interviews with players and the TV ratings their games generate.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
11 May 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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Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 May 2025
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This leaves behind a white dwarf as a gradually-cooling stellar ember.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The white dwarfs are currently orbiting around each other, with each orbit lasting over 14 hours.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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