The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
- Review article by Bob Wald, published in Living Reviews in Relativity. Contains detailed information about classical black hole thermodynamics, hawking radiation and black hole entropy.
- http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2001-6/

Quantum Geometry and Black Holes
- Review article (graduate level) by Abhay Ashtekar and Kirill Krasnov (Penn State University) about how to explain black hole thermodynamics using the methods of non-perturbative quantum general relativity.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9804039

Black Hole Thermodynamics Today
- Contribution by Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland) to the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting: An overview of development in black hole thermodynamics in the 1990s.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9801015

SETI@home Listens to the Dying Gasps of Black Holes
- About the possibility that data from the SETI project, which searches for extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes, might provide evidence for the evaporation of black holes via the emission of Hawking radiation.
- http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/SETI@home/Update_110501.htm

Hawking Radiation
- Brief introduction to the phenomenon, including simple formulas and instructive animations; part of the black hole web pages written by Andrew Hamilton (University of Colorado at Boulder).
- http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/hawk.html

Introduction to Black Hole Microscopy
- Review by Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland and Utrecht University), suitable for graduate student. Presents the standard understanding of the Hawking effect, the fundamentals of the Unruh effect, and the connection between the two.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9510026

Quantum Fields near Black Holes
- Review by Andreas Wipf (University of Jena), giving an introduction to quantum fields in spacetime and, more specifically, the Unruh effect and Hawking radiation. Presupposes basic knowledge of quantum field theory and general relativity.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9801025

Quantum Aspects of Black Holes
- Review article by Jeff Harvey (University of Chicago) and Andrew Strominger (UCSB) on Hawking radiation and black hole evaporation, based on lectures given in 1992 in Trieste and Boulder, Colorado.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9209055

Black Hole Entropy and Quantum Gravity
- An elementary introduction (at graduate level) to the problem of black hole entropy as formulated by Bekenstein and Hawking. Written by Parthasarathi Majumdar based on a conference talk.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9807045

Black Hole Evaporation
- Very readable tutorial by Jennie Traschen (University of Massachussetts at Amherst) on how to compute the properties of Hawking radiation and perform similar calculations. Presupposes basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0010055

Introductory Lectures on Black Hole Thermodynamics
- A (graduate level) review of black hole thermodynamics by Ted Jacobson (University of Utrecht). Includes information on black hole basics, classical black hole thermodynamics, and quantum aspects.
- http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~wwwthe/lectures/itfuu-0196.ps

Black Hole Thermodynamics
- Brief introduction to the basic ideas of black hole thermodynamics; written by David M. Harrison (University of Toronto); uses no mathematical formulas; suitable for a general audience.
- http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/BlackHoleThermo/BlackHoleThermo.html