They zapped a tiny plastic pellet with 12 laser beams fired simultaneously and allowed some of the resulting radiation to blast a pellet of silicon, a common element in accretion disks.

• 他们利用12道激光束同时袭击一个小小的塑料球，再利用所形成的部分辐射引爆一个硅球，而硅是吸积盘中的一种常见元素。