  We construct and analyze thermal spinning giant gravitons in type II/M-theory
based on spherically wrapped black branes, using the method of thermal probe
branes originating from the blackfold approach. These solutions generalize in
different directions recent work in which the case of thermal (non-spinning)
D3-brane giant gravitons was considered, and reveal a rich phase structure with
various new properties. First of all, we extend the construction to M-theory,
by constructing thermal giant graviton solutions using spherically wrapped M2-
and M5-branes. More importantly, we switch on new quantum numbers, namely
internal spins on the sphere, which are not present in the usual extremal limit
for which the brane world volume stress tensor is Lorentz invariant. We examine
the effect of this new type of excitation and in particular analyze the
physical quantities in various regimes, including that of small temperatures as
well as low/high spin. As a byproduct we find new stationary dipole-charged
black hole solutions in AdS_m X S^n backgrounds of type II/M-theory. We finally
show, via a double scaling extremal limit, that our spinning thermal giant
graviton solutions lead to a novel null-wave zero-temperature giant graviton
solution with a BPS spectrum, which does not have an analogue in terms of the
conventional weakly coupled world volume theory.
