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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
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
Enterprise customers don't need dedicated GPU superclusters at this scale.
—Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 15 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
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
Enterprise customers don't need dedicated GPU superclusters at this scale.
—Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 15 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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In the case of this Einstein Cross, the gravitational lens is the galaxy J1453g in near-perfect alignment with Earth and a distant quasar, the active region at the heart of the galaxy, which is powered by a feeding supermassive black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 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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Instead, the collapse results in a faint supernova with significant fallback, in which the heavier elements from the star’s core, such as oxygen, are sucked back past the event horizon and trapped in the black hole beneath.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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Yet, others reach our planet after being thrust into space in distant supernova explosions (the final blasts of stars that run out of fuel in their cores).—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
13 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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However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 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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Brighton, Manchester City, Arsenal and Everton all fall into the latter category, and FPL managers should be paying close attention to this variable heading into the final stretch.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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The main booking variable is whether WWE creative uses Backlash to extend Fatu's chase or pull a swerve.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 May 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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The sun will end its life as a white dwarf in around 6 billion years, fading alone in a cosmic graveyard that was once our solar system.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 May 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 16 May. 2026.
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