23–28 Aug 2026
Asia/Shanghai timezone

Extending Kerr–Bertotti–Robinson Spacetime Through Infinity: A Wormhole Connecting a Black Hole’s Exterior and Interior

24 Aug 2026, 16:45
15m

Speaker

Yu-Sen Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China)

Description

The surface $r=\infty$ in the Kerr--Bertotti--Robinson (KBR) spacetime is known not to be a physical boundary. We explicitly construct a natural extension across it, obtaining a wormhole that connects the exterior of one KBR black hole to the interior of a neighboring one. Depending on the parameters, the extended spacetime exhibits several distinct global causal structures and can contain a naked singularity. We further study a test scalar field and compute its quasinormal-mode spectrum, which suggests the presence of echoes naturally associated with the wormhole geometry. Unstable modes also emerge near extremality.

Authors

Yu-Sen Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China) Mr Wen-Tao Fu (University of Science and Technology of China) Mr Ming-Fei Ji (University of Science and Technology of China) Dr Liang-Bi Wu (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS) Prof. Li-Ming Cao (University of Science and Technology of China)

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