This document provides a history and overview of black holes. It discusses that the idea of black holes was first proposed by John Mitchell in the 18th century. Key developments include Einstein's theory of relativity in 1915 and the work of Israel, Carter and Robinson establishing the no-hair theorem in the 1970s. The term "black hole" was first publicly used by John Wheeler and first recorded in an article by Ann Ewing. The document then covers the classification, features and examples of different types of black holes such as their event horizons, singularities, photon spheres, and ergospheres. Black holes can be supermassive, stellar-mass or hypothetical micro black holes. They are also classified based on their properties as