supercluster

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Recent Examples of supercluster 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 The chips designed by Huawei serve as the basis of the company’s AI infrastructure, in which a supercluster is connected to multiple superpods. Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025 Meta's first supercluster, called Prometheus, is slated to go live in 2026. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2025 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. Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
Noun
  • Found by Hubble before JWST’s launch, GNz7q looked like a mix of a galaxy and a quasar.
    Big Think, Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Additionally, this quasar is also producing jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light, a rare feature among quasars.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For years, Weber claimed to continue to detect these waves, including when our Local Group’s closest and most recent supernova went off in 1987.
    Big Think, Big Think, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This new chink in the armor of dark energy resulted from Lee and colleagues from Yonsei University discovering that Type Ia supernova may not be quite so standard after all.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In 1992 that changed, when astronomers spotted two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Apep also includes a third star, a massive supergiant.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
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
  • Players getting paid can also affect locker room chemistry and become another variable to be managed.
    Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, the number will stay low but variable.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • What is a neutron star, or pulsar?
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Pulsar 2849 intrigued me with its neutron star premise.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 21 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The hypothesis was based on the taking of distance measurements to faraway galaxies using type 1a supernovae, stellar explosions that occur in twin star systems where one of the stars is a white dwarf.
    Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Type la supernovas occur when a white dwarf star undergoes a thermonuclear explosion, reaching nearly the same peak brightness each time.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025

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

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