  We discuss various physical aspects of nonextremal, extremal and
supersymmetric black holes in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (ADS) spacetimes.
Specifically, we discuss how the isolated horizon (IH) framework leads to an
ambiguity-free description of rotating black holes in these spacetimes. We then
apply this framework to investigate the properties of supersymmetric isolated
horizons (SIHs) in four-dimensional N = 2 gauged supergravity. Among other
results we find that they are necessarily extremal, that rotating SIHs must
have non-trivial electromagnetic fields, and that non-rotating SIHs necessarily
have constant curvature horizon cross sections and a magnetic (though not
electric) charge.
