THE SEARCH FOR WORMHOLES

All About Space joins the teams of scientists searching for wormholes in an attempt to uncover the facts behind the science fiction

Wormholes are so-called gateways that provide a shortcut through the fabric of space-time. They can be thought of as tunnels with ends capped by an ever-hungry black and a white hole, the black hole’s time-reversed cousin that prefers to spit things out if anything comes too close to its event horizon. It’s true that a wormhole never looks out of place in science fiction – for example, lurking in the universe of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and employed by captain Benjamin Sisko and his crew of the Defiant. They use the hole to travel from the Alpha to the Gamma quadrant on the other side of the galaxy at unprecedented speed – certainly a thrilling prospect. However, we still don’t know for sure whether traversable wormholes like the ones…

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