Scientists build 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact | Reuters

Scientists build 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact | Reuters

3 minute readNovember 30, 202210:32 PM GMTLast Updated 2 days ago

Scientists build 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact

By Will Dunham

Undated artwork provided by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California depicts a quantum experiment that observes traversable wormhole behavior. inqnet/A. Mueller (Caltech)/Handout via REUTERS

WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - In science fiction - think films and TV like "Interstellar" and "Star Trek" - wormholes in the cosmos serve as portals through space and time for spacecraft to traverse unimaginable distances with ease. If only it were that simple.

Scientists have long pursued a deeper understanding of wormholes and now appear to be making progress. Researchers announced on Wednesday that they forged two miniscule simulated black holes - those extraordinarily dense celestial objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - in a quantum computer and transmitted a message between them through what amounted to a tunnel in space-time.