Padmanabhan, T.2012-03-032012-03-032008-05-11http://hdl.handle.net/11007/199One of the celebrated results in black hole physics is that black holes have a temperature and they emit a thermal spectrum of radiation. Though a rigorous derivation of this result requires quantum field theory, a flavour of the essential ideas can be provided at an elementary level as indicated here.enBlack HolesThermal spectrumRadiationArticle