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Do Lorentz-violating fields create wormholes inside black holes?

Jinbo Yang, Zhan-Feng Mai, Dicong Liang, Lijing Shao

June 4, 2026

A theory where a background vector field breaks Lorentz symmetry — 'bumblebee gravity' — turns out to harbor black hole solutions with stranger properties than previously realized. Analytic solutions (not just numerics) show that for certain parameter choices, overcharged black holes tip over into traversable wormholes, the charge-to-mass ratio can grow without bound, and Hawking temperature behaves non-monotonically. These exact results correct and extend earlier numerical surveys of the same theory.
Published as Asymptotically-flat Black holes in Bumblebee gravity: Exact solutions and Thermodynamics arXiv:2606.05801
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