Black holes as topological channel openings

In the τ-carrier readout, black-hole formation is not primarily the formation of a point singularity. It is the saturation of a geometric channel and the opening of a non-contractible topological channel in the global carrier. The mature horizon is read as toroidal / bipolar rather than as a primitive Schwarzschild S^2 surface. Global spacetime topology therefore becomes non-simply-connected when such channels exist. Event Horizon Telescope horizon-region imaging, together with lensing and multi-wavelength accretion/jet observations, is one empirical surface that can constrain this readout.