附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1 The physics of black holes (an overview) -- chapter 2 Thermodynamics of black holes and Hawking radiation -- chapter 3 Strings, matrices and black holes -- chapter 4 Introduction -- chapter 5 Supergravity p-branes in higher dimensions -- chapter 6 The symplectic structure of 4D supergravity andN = 2 BPS black holes -- chapter 7 The structure of supergravity central charges and the black hole entropy -- chapter 8 N = 8 supergravity: BPS black holes with 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 of supersymmetry -- chapter 9 Astrophysics of stellar mass black holes -- chapter 10 Computational black holes.