supercluster

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Recent Examples of supercluster This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025 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. Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 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
Noun
  • The luminous cores of distant, ancient galaxies, quasars expel jets of energetic matter.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Excitingly, this stellar explosion may be somewhat different from the supernovas that have occurred more recently in the local universe.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Space is a major source of gamma-rays, with these high energy photons created in various powerful cosmic events like the supernova death of massive stars and objects like the disks of gas and dust that surround feeding supermassive black holes and rapidly spinning neutron stars called pulsars.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The latter helped refine the locations of these pulsars, which are spinning neutron stars.
    John Loeffler, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike other supergiants, however, a segment of Bathynomus vaderi’s back section narrows and curves backward in a unique way.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2025
  • These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, trying to observe finicky birds in remote habitats full of uncontrollable variables may mean that this particular test would not be resolved anytime soon.
    Jason Bittel, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • For improving mental health, these variables seem to have surprisingly weak effects.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With their extremely strong magnetic fields, these neutron stars – small, dense collapsed cores of supergiant stars – are capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy that have been observed for years.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
  • That has led to a focus on compact objects, like neutron stars and black holes—especially a class of neutron stars called magnetars—as likely sources.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In this arrangement, a white dwarf star usually pulls mass from a nearby companion star.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
  • However, if the white dwarf progenitor star exists in a binary with another star, this stellar corpse can begin vampirically stripping material from its companion.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, according to a press release.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • However, the existence of a white dwarf is not sufficient for a Type la supernova; the white draft must also be part of a binary star system, in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass.
    Julian Dossett, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025

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