Simulating Black Hole Radiation With Lasers: Lasers Produce the First Hawking Radiation Ever Detected ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2011) — A team of Italian scientists has fired a laser beam into a hunk of glass to create what they believe is an optical analogue of the Hawking radiation that many physicists expect is emitted by black holes.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2011) — A team of Italian scientists has fired a laser beam into a hunk of glass to create what they believe is an optical analogue of the Hawking radiation that many physicists expect is emitted by black holes.