  We revisit the issue of the RHIC ``fireball'' as a dual black hole, and
explain some of the details. We discuss the nature of the (black hole)
information paradox as a purely field theory (gauge theory) phenomenon and how
the paradox can be formulated in exactly the same way for the RHIC fireball and
a black hole. We stress the differences between the black holes produced in the
gravity dual and the equilibrium situation of the Witten construction for
finite temperature AdS-CFT. We analyze the thermodynamics of the fireball, give
more arguments why $T_{fireball}\propto m_{\pi}$, including an effective field
theory one, and explain what entropy=area/4 means experimentally for the
fireball.
