Escaping from the black hole?

We show that if there exists a special kind of Born-Infeld type scalar field,then one can send information from inside a black hole. This information isencoded in perturbations of the field propagating in non-trivial scalar fieldbackgrounds, which serves as a "new ether". Although the theory isLorentz-invariant it allows, nevertheless, the superluminal propagation ofperturbations with respect to the "new ether". We found the stationary solutionfor background, which describes the accretion of the scalar field onto a blackhole. Examining the propagation of small perturbations around this solution weshow the signals emitted inside the horizon can reach an observer locatedoutside the black hole. We discuss possible physical consequences of thisresult.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, published versio