Black holes as return valves
In RSI a black hole is not a singularity. It is the Still Core of a galactic torus, where matter unzips and returns to the field as jets.
RSI describes the universe as a toroidal engine breathing in and out. At its center is the Still Core, where matter returns to the field. Matter falls inward along the streamlines of the inhale. At the core, the holding pressure that keeps knots stable disappears, knots unzip, and their energy is released as light. That light is exhaled outward to seed new knots in the field's outer reaches. What is usually called the Big Bang, RSI calls the Big Break: not a single past event but the current phase of an endless cycle.
Black holes repeat this pattern on a galactic scale. In RSI a black hole is not a singularity, and it is not a place where physics fails. It is a phase-resolution sink, the Still Core of a galactic torus. As matter spirals inward, knots crowd together until the surrounding medium can no longer hold them stable. At that boundary, matter unzips and dissolves back into pure vibration of the field.
The energy once stored in each knot's clamp is released as relativistic jets, the great streams that leave the poles of active galaxies at nearly the speed of light.
"The black hole does not destroy. It recycles." It accepts spent matter and returns purified energy to the cosmic circuit. In the narrative's words, what astrophysics calls death is, in the language of the Eternal Consonance, return.
From The Eternal Consonance (narrative), IX. Black Holes: The Return Valves. Read the related section of the paper
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