Counterexamples to strong cosmic censorship in asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes.

The extendibility of spacetime and the existence of weak solutions to the Einstein field equations beyond Cauchy horizons, is a crucial ingredient to examine the limits of General Relativity. The strong cosmic censorship conjecture serves as a firewall for gravitation by demanding inextendibility of spacetime beyond the Cauchy horizon. For asymptotically flat spacetimes, the predominance of the blueshift instability and the subsequent formation of a mass-inflation singularity at the Cauchy horizon have, so far, substantiated the conjecture. Here, nevertheless, by considering linear scalar field perturbations on accelerating black holes, we provide, for the first time, robust numerical evidence of counterexamples to strong cosmic censorship in asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes. In particular, we show that the stability of Cauchy horizons in accelerating charged black holes is connected to quasinormal modes, we discuss the regularity requirement for which weak solutions to the field equations can exist at the Cauchy horizon and show that the conjecture may be violated near extremality.