supercluster

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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. Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026 The deals provide power to the PJM grid that supports Meta's operations, including the Prometheus supercluster. Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 14 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 Meta's first supercluster, called Prometheus, is slated to go live in 2026. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
Noun
  • 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
  • Imagine a distant light source, like a quasar, that sends light traveling for billions of light-years.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • When this final collapse happens, shockwaves ripple out to the star's outer layers, which are blown away in a supernova explosion, taking with them the vast majority of the star's mass.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Bad Bunny has worked with soccer supernova Lionel Messi.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • As Earth, the pulsar, and the intervening interstellar gas move relative to one another, bright and dim patches form across radio frequencies and evolve over time.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The two planets, roughly four times the size of Earth, were discovered to be orbiting around a millisecond pulsar star named PSR B1257+12, which is 2,300 light-years away.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • All three of its contingent stars are huge, hot, blue supergiant stars at vastly different distances from the solar system: Alnitak: 1,260 light-years.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • Of course, prices aren't the only variable that negotiations hinge on.
    Darius Tahir, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Progress one variable at a time—either speed or workout length.
    Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Learning about these highly energized neutrinos could lead to discoveries about where in the universe they might have been created, such as black holes and neutron star collisions — the latter of which are the most powerful classes of explosions in the cosmos.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The fact that these events are responsible for the creation of some of our most precious and important elements, as well as bright cosmic phenomena like GRBs and kilonovas, means there has been a heavy bias toward studying the aftereffects of neutron star mergers.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Finally, the nebula fades away and only a white dwarf is left behind.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Procyon's white dwarf companion was not found until 1896 at the Lick Observatory in California.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2026

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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.

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