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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
Noun
  • These events are called quasars, but when the jets are directed straight down our line of sight, the quasar is classified as a blazar.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • An asymmetrical supernova would be enough, the scientists found.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • IceCube helps scientists gain insights into questions regarding supernova events, galaxy formation, the Big Bang, dark matter and the properties of the neutrino itself.
    — Daniella McCahey, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • This revealed that the white dwarf in this binary system is the youngest white dwarf ever seen to be partnered with a millisecond pulsar.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The pulsar ties back to early research on the phenomenon, which had scientists wondering if their signals were signs of alien life.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 31 July 2026
Noun
  • The observations show the red supergiant has an atmosphere with a temperature of around 3,680 degrees Fahrenheit (2,030 degrees Celsius), but possesses at least two regions even hotter than this.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 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
  • If a critical variable exceeds an allowable limit, the safety function overrides the control system regardless of why the controller made its decision.
    — Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Eighteen months of trade chaos and tariff whiplash have added another variable to the already delicate calculation of what to carry, how much to order, which vendors to back and when to walk away.
    — Jessica Binns, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • However, this star doesn't have certain other heavy elements that would be present after a neutron star collision.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Geese did something similar with last year’s Getting Killed, their own neutron star of an album, gobbling up the tangled lineages of rock, punk, and drone music in New York City with the ravenous appetites of kids weaned on the infinite scroll.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Cosmic death The unnamed exoplanet was discovered circling the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, according to a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Williams and his colleagues observed a white dwarf that showed some unusual chemical signatures, including zinc, copper and niobium.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2026

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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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