Introduction to Black Holes

The following topics are presented in this book:basics of black holes: gravitational collapse, event horizon, geodesicsSchwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr-Newman metricsspherically symmetric, rotating and electrically charged black holesCarter-Penrose diagrams, naked singularities and Kruskal coordinatesmechanics of black holesthermodynamics of black holes and Hawking radiationquantum black holes