Wormhole

Wormhole

A wormhole is a theoretical phenomenon that exploits the "curvature of space" to create a shortcut between two distant locations. While wormholes are theoretically possible, no real wormhole has ever been detected.

Wormholes in Science Fiction

Wormholes, whether natural or artificial, are common methods of interstellar or even intergalactic travel in science fiction stories, effectively teleporting objects of arbitrary size across arbitrary distances.

Examples include...

• the wormhole in Farscape.
• the wormhole in TNG "The Price"
• the Bajoran Wormhole, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• the gate system from Stargate
• the wormhole created by the Tesseract in The Avengers