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This is an overview for non-specialists of some of the progress in research on black holes in String and Supergravity theories, mostly focused on the search and study of explicit classical solutions describing them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We review a generic recipe for deforming extremal black holes into non-extremal black holes, introduced in [1], which allows to construct general non-extremal black hole solutions from general supersymmetric solutions. We also relate the deformation procedure directly to the equations of motion, by means of the H-FGK formalism [2], providing additional support of the Ansa¨tz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We review general and recent results on the characterization and construction of timelike supersymmetric solutions of 4-dimensional supergravity theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the recent times a lot of effort has been devoted to improve our knowledge about the space of string theory vacua (“the landscape”) to find statistical grounds to justify how and why the theory selects its vacuum. Particularly interesting are those vacua that preserve some supersymmetry, which are always supersymmetric solutions of some supergravity theory. After an general introduction to how the pursuit of unification has lead to the vacuum selection problem, we are going to review some recent results on the problem of finding all the supersymmetric solutions of a supergravity theory. We will also review some interesting solutions that have been discovered using these methods and their relations. © 2006 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]