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Recent Examples of supercluster
For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
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Trefis Team, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
For example, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
The fluctuations reflected variations in the universe’s density, and the denser regions would later coalesce into galaxies and even larger-scale structures of superclusters of galaxies lining up like a cosmic spider web.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Laniakea comprises four supercluster branches totaling over 500 groups and clusters with more than 100,000 individual galaxies.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
Unlike clusters and groups, superclusters are not gravitationally bound and have not yet completely collapsed.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
In subcortical areas, there also appears to be a supercluster of cells called splatter neurons that control innate behaviors and physiological functions.
—Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
In 2014, astronomers identified a new supercluster based on the relative motions of galaxies analyzed in a more sophisticated way than ever before.
—David J Eicher, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2020
Trefis Team, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
For example, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
The fluctuations reflected variations in the universe’s density, and the denser regions would later coalesce into galaxies and even larger-scale structures of superclusters of galaxies lining up like a cosmic spider web.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Laniakea comprises four supercluster branches totaling over 500 groups and clusters with more than 100,000 individual galaxies.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
Unlike clusters and groups, superclusters are not gravitationally bound and have not yet completely collapsed.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
In subcortical areas, there also appears to be a supercluster of cells called splatter neurons that control innate behaviors and physiological functions.
—Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
In 2014, astronomers identified a new supercluster based on the relative motions of galaxies analyzed in a more sophisticated way than ever before.
—David J Eicher, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
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But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Measurements of distances to quasars based on radio-interferometric techniques, for instance, are advancing, and there are prospects for using fluctuations in galaxy-surface brightness.Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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This group has analyzed the most recent and most comprehensive observations of type-Ia supernovas and say the evidence is consistent with a model of the universe that isn’t exploding after all.The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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Rubin's wide field of view will enable it to produce alerts for transient events like supernovas or asteroids within 120 seconds, generating 20 terabytes of data each night, ultimately creating the largest astronomical movie ever.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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This is the concept that gravitational waves passing between us and a pulsar could disrupt the timing of a pulsar’s radio pulses.Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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Researchers can look for gaps and anomalies in the pattern of radio waves emitted from these spinning pulsars to detect gravitational waves.Jonathan Zrake, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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Because the creatures looked a bit different than other supergiants, some of them were sent to Prof. Peter Ng at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
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Red supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse and Antares are the astrobiological fertilizers for our galaxy at large.Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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As these emergency travelers make short-notice decisions on when to go, where to stay and when to return, hoteliers are juggling more variables than usual.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Health equity requires a broader approach — one that recognizes and acts on the importance of real life variables like access to nutritious food, stable housing, and transportation.Ann Marie P. Mauro, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
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For example, the current model of airspace allocation, based on decades-old frameworks, contrasts sharply with the potential for drone corridors that could populate the skies with the density of a neutron star (OK, slight exaggeration).Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Previously, skepticism surrounded the possibility of a radio burst escaping the intense environment of a magnetar, a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field.Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
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The most famous of these are Type Ia supernovas, in which the white dwarf is obliterated in a runaway thermonuclear explosion after stolen stellar material piles up on its surface (though there are rare events called Type Iax supernovas, in which the white dwarf lives on as a wrecked zombie star).Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away from Earth, the Blaze Star is a binary system in which a white dwarf, the core remains of a dying star, accumulates material from its neighboring red giant star.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
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In mid-December 2024, scientists discovered a pair of binary stars designated D9 orbiting each other close to Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Scientists have never been able to detect the binary star system within the S-cluster -- until now.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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