They aggregate from "over 400 sources" and run their own crawler: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Their crawler (DuckDuckBot) doesn't have much of an impact on the search results, it's mainly used to provide instant answers. [1]
[1]: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
It reads like they are saying a website = source, and the hyperlink for the sources is dead.