There is a viable vector-tensor gravity (VTG) theory, whose vector field produces repulsive forces leading to important effects. In the background universe, the effect of these forces is an accelerated expansion identical to that produced by vacuum energy (cosmological constant). Here, we prove that another of these effects arises for great enough collapsing masses which lead to Schwarzschild black holes and singularities in general relativity (GR). For these masses, pressure becomes negligible against gravitational attraction and the complete collapse cannot be stopped in the context of GR; however, in VTG, a strong gravitational repulsion could stop the falling of the shells towards the symmetry center. A certain study of a collapsing dust cloud is then developed and, in order to undertake this task, the VTG equations in comoving coordinates are written. In this sense and, as it happens in general relativity for a pressureless dust ball, three different solutions are found. These three situations are analyzed and the problem of the shell crossings is approached. The apparent horizons and trapped surfaces, whose analysis will lead to diverse situations, depending on certain theory characteristic parameter value, are also examined. I. INTRODUCTION Any vector-tensor theory of gravitation involves the metric tensor g µν and a vector field A µ. These fields are coupled to build up an appropriate action leading to the basic equations via variational calculations. There are many actions and vector-tensor theories [1, 2], but one of them has been extensively studied to conclude that: (i) it has not either classical or quantum instabilities and, (ii) it explains-as well as general relativity (GR)-both cosmological and solar system observations [3-7]; hence, new applications of this viable and promising theory are worthwhile. Since there are opposite gravitational forces, this theory will be hereafter called AR-VTG (attractive-repulsive vector-tensor gravity). As it was shown in [6], for appropriate values of the AR-VTG parameters (see below), there are black hole event horizons with admissible radii which are a little smaller than those of GR; nevertheless, for other values of these parameters, there are no horizons of this kind.