Black hole solutions in theories of supergravity

Abstract

Supergravity has played a very important role in many advances and developments in black hole physics. Here I will review the history of some of them.

arXiv commentLatex file, 28 pages, no figures. Provisional version of an invited contribution to the book Half a Century of Supergravity, eds. A.~Ceresole and G.~Dall'Agata. References added