The following topics are presented in this book:

basics of black holes: gravitational collapse, event horizon, geodesics

Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr-Newman metrics

spherically symmetric, rotating and electrically charged black holes

Carter-Penrose diagrams, naked singularities and Kruskal coordinates

mechanics of black holes

thermodynamics of black holes and Hawking radiation

quantum black holes