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Higher-dimensional black hole solutions: approximate methods

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I review progress in the last few years in constructing and analyzing many new classes of black holes that are possible in spacetimes of dimension larger than four.

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Correspondence to Roberto Emparan.

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Work supported by MEC FPA2010-20807-C02-02, AGAUR 2009-SGR-168 and CPAN CSD2007-00042 Consolider-Ingenio 2010.

This article belongs to the Topical Collection: The First Century of General Relativity: GR20/Amaldi10.

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Emparan, R. Higher-dimensional black hole solutions: approximate methods. Gen Relativ Gravit 46, 1686 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-014-1686-2

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