The Topological solitons would appear exactly like predicted black holes from a distance, with shadows, light rings, and gravitational wave signatures. It is no

The Topological solitons would appear exactly like predicted black holes from a distance, with shadows, light rings, and gravitational wave signatures. It is not about the event horizon. It just telling you we would see them as black holes if we look to them from some distance. Remember that cannot observe the event horizon directly, the famous gravitational waves discovery in 2015 is an example of indirect black holes observation The other important difference is that they could form without mass which is not the case with black holes. So I am not sure that I would agree with you.