Correction to: Nature Astronomy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02491-0, published online 12 March 2025.

In the version of the article initially published, five authors (A. Rowlinson, R. A. M. J. Wijers, G. Stefansson, J. W. T. Hessels and R. A. D. Wijnands) were mistakenly listed with affiliation 1 which has now been amended to affiliation 2 (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.