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This story originally gave the wrong affiliation for Ted Jacobson — he is at the University of Maryland in College Park not in Baltimore. The text has now been corrected.
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Merali, Z. Astrophysics: Fire in the hole!. Nature 496, 20–23 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/496020a
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