2011 Volume 66 Issue 8 Pages 610-614
Higher-dimensional black holes have rather richer properties than four-dimensional ones. For instance, the event horizon of higher-dimensional black hole can be a sphere, a cylinder, a torus and so on, and even "phase transitions" among various black objects can happen. A new paradigm called the Fluid/Gravity Correspondence is expected to make it possible to understand the dynamics of such non-linear phenomena. In this article, I describe the essence of the Correspondence, while reviewing basics of General Relativity and Fluid Mechanics.