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Shouldn't the hardware throttle down, and at the most extreme just halt the whole system, before temperatures reach dangerous levels?

Yes, if the safeguards work properly. Unfortunately no safeguard is perfect and sometimes these things happen, especially if a temperature sensor dies (dead temp sensors usually read as 0 Celsius so the throttling software doesn't know something is wrong).