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Recent Examples of supercluster
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.
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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
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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All the other elements in the periodic table had to be subsequently formed by stars, beginning with the supernova explosions of the most massive Population III stars.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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The most massive stars will die in a core-collapse supernova, often within merely a few million years after their birth.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 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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And magnetars are the most extreme of all: most of them are newborn pulsars that possess magnetic fields up to 1,000 times stronger than normal.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 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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With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 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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Light Light exposure is the biggest variable for getting seeds to sprout.—
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
20 Apr. 2026
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This is the first playoff clash between the Nuggets and Timberwolves since the latter swapped out a pretty important variable in its frontcourt — Karl-Anthony Towns for Julius Randle (and DiVincenzo).—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
17 Apr. 2026
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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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Gamma-ray bursts happen without warning, when massive stars die and form black holes or during mergers of neutron stars and black holes.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
23 Mar. 2026
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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, by using computer simulations, the researchers were able to determine the future of this 3+1 star system, ending up as just two white dwarf stellar remnants.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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