Black Holes in Higher-Dimensional Gravity

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These lectures review some of the recent progress in uncovering the phase structure of black hole solutions in higher-dimensional vacuum Einstein gravity.

• The two classes on which we focus are Kaluza-Klein black holes, i.e.
• static solutions with an event horizon in asymptotically flat spaces with compact directions, and stationary solutions with an event horizon in asymptotically flat space.
• Highlights include the recently constructed multi-black hole configurations on the cylinder and thin rotating black rings in dimensions higher than five.