Analogue black hole could be made from plasma mirror

An analogue to the creation of Hawking radiation at the event horizon of a black hole could be made by firing an intense laser pulse at specially designed targets. That's the conclusion of physicists in Taiwan and France, who say that the "plasma mirror" created in the proposed experiment could be used to study the relationship between quantum particles inside and outside a black hole. The researchers have calculated that the experiment could be done using existing technology and that it could shed important light on the black-hole information-loss paradox.