Black Holes as Information Relay Stations: A Six-Principle Synthesis from Holography to Unitarity

This paper addresses the black hole information paradox from a functional, information-theoretic perspective. Rather than treating black holes primarily as destruction devices, it asks whether the major developments of the past fifty years can be read as a sequential relay architecture for information preservation and retrieval. The paper does not introduce a new fundamental law. Instead, it connects six widely discussed principles into one pathway: information is physical; information cannot be deleted under unitary evolution; black-hole information is encoded on the event horizon; ER=EPR provides a possible nonlocal geometric connection; the Hayden-Preskill protocol shows how scrambled information can become recoverable; and the Page curve provides the expected retrieval signature under unitary evaporation. Read together, these principles suggest a functional reinterpretation: a black hole may act as an information relay station, first recording information at the horizon and then allowing its recovery through relay-like channels. The central contribution is the explicit separation between the record function and the relay function. In the record stage, the event horizon functions as a holographic information surface. In the relay stage, ER=EPR-compatible geometry and scrambling-recovery dynamics provide a possible channel through which the recorded information becomes recoverable. This reframes the apparent destruction of information as an observer-dependent transition: what appears lost to a three-dimensional observer may remain preserved and recoverable in an information-theoretic description. The paper also includes two exploratory extensions. First, Poplawski’s Einstein-Cartan black-hole cosmology is discussed as an optional spacetime-birth extension, but the core relay-station argument does not depend on it. Second, the paper briefly examines whether identity, if modeled as an information pattern, is structurally compatible with information non-deletion. This identity-information section is explicitly presented as speculative and exploratory, not as a proof of identity survival. The model is made falsifiable through six compatibility checks and two model-specific predictions. The first model-specific prediction is that if recording and relaying are sequential rather than simultaneous, future high-resolution gravitational-wave ringdown observations may reveal a dual-decay signature. The second is that black-hole information recovery may approximate a logistic-style recovery profile; a phenomenological fit to a simplified island-formula Page curve gives a high correlation with the logistic binary-entropy form. These predictions are intended as future tests of the record-relay separation model, not as completed empirical confirmations. The conclusion is that black holes can be interpreted, under this six-principle synthesis, not as final erasure devices but as information relay systems. The paper’s value is therefore not a new equation, but a new functional organization of existing physics: record, relay, restore, retrieve. If this interpretation holds, the black hole information paradox becomes less a story of destruction and more a story of information transfer across boundaries. Keywords: black hole information paradox, holographic principle, unitarity, ER=EPR, Hayden-Preskill protocol, Page curve, information relay station, information conservation, event horizon, quantum information, wormhole channel, black hole thermodynamics, information recovery.