An Analog of the Theoretical Radiation made by Black

Holes was Recreated in the Lab.

Last October, Jeff Steinhauer, a physicist at the Technion-Israel Institute of

Technology in Haifa, announced that created an analogue for a bizarre type
of radiation that can, in theory, escape black holes.

Black holes are objects that have a strong gravitational pull, so once anything
passes a certain point, called the event horizon, it is trapped and cannot
escape, except for a special kind of radiation called Hawking radiation.

While it has never been observed in space, it was first theorized by Stephen
Hawking in 1974. Hawking radiation is important to describe how particles
of radiation near the event horizon of a black hole can move from inside of
the black hole to outside of it— a behaviour that is theoretically possible,
according to quantum mechanics.

Steinhauer created a sonic black hole in the lab that traps sound instead of
light. This is much easier because sound moves much slower than light.

In a paper published in October in the journal Nature Physics, he describes

how he discovered sound waves hopping the "black hole's" event horizon.

This analogue to Hawking radiation could help solve a burning question for
physicists who study black holes: If a piece of radiation is encoded with
information, like the spin value of particles, and falls into a black hole, is that
information lost forever?

Source : https://www.businessinsider.com/top-11-physics-discoveries-of-
2014-2015-1#9-an-analog-of-the-theoretical-radiation-made-by-black-holes-
was-recreated-in-the-lab-3