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  "abstract": "This paper interprets black holes as information relay stations under global unitarity and fast scrambling. It connects holographic encoding, entanglement, Hayden–Preskill recovery, and Page-curve behaviour into a framework describing how infalling information is recorded and redistributed into radiation correlations.\n\nThe central contribution is the separation of record and relay functions. Recording occurs on the scrambling timescale, while substantial recovery of information deposited before the Page time occurs near the Page transition. Unitary qubit models with up to fourteen black-hole qubits examine these connections using a mutual-information recovery proxy, revealing the role of early radiation and an approximately logistic recovery transition.\n\nTwo model-specific predictions are proposed: gravitational-wave echoes spaced approximately by the scrambling time, conditional on a reflecting surface at a Planck-scale distance above the horizon; and a recovery transition whose rate remains of order one as system size increases, testable in quantum simulators. The contribution is a functional synthesis supported by model calculations.\n\nKeywords: black hole information paradox, holography, unitarity, Hayden–Preskill protocol, Page curve, information relay station, scrambling time, gravitational-wave echoes.",
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      "name": "Taekyung Lee",
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  "published": "2026-10-17",
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  "title": "Black Holes as Information Relay Stations: A Six-Principle Synthesis from Holography to Unitarity",
  "title_text": "Black Holes as Information Relay Stations: A Six-Principle Synthesis from Holography to Unitarity",
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