  This book chapter presents a brief introduction to black holes and branes in
supergravity, focussing on 11-dimensional supergravity and type II
supergravities in 10-dimension. The chapter is aimed at graduate students who
have completed a standard course in general relativity. It is an ammended and
slightly updated version of arXiv:gr-qc/9908045. In addition to describing
specific solutions, brief discussions of p-form gauge fields, Kaluza-Klein
reduction, (local) supersymmetry, T- and S-dualities in supergravity, and
string perturbation theory are included to provide context.
