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Messages are always transmitted directly to the subscribers. When subscribing to a topic, a socket is opened between each of the publishers of a topic and the subscriber. The core is only used as sort of a name service to find out which nodes are publishing topics, who is providing a service and it stores ROS parameters. For more information, have a look here and in here.