Interstellar-style 'space time tunnel' may exist in the Milky Way

A giant doorway to another universe may exist at the centre of the Milky Way, and it could be large enough to swallow spaceships whole.

The Daily Mail cites a recent study which claims it would be possible to travel through a wormhole in a similar way to moving through the space-time tunnel in the film Interstellar.

Wormholes, allowing instantaneous travel between distant points in space and time, are reportedly allowed under Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

But most scientists dismiss the idea of ever building one large and stable enough to pass through, and no natural examples have been detected.
 

The extraordinary new theory, published in the journal Annals of Physics, follows the discovery of what appears to be a super-massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

According to the Italian authors, the black hole - a region of concentrated gravity that distorts space-time - may be a wormhole in disguise.
 

The scientists, who base their conclusion on complex mathematical models, say the portal could be
constructed from dark matter.

This is invisible and mysterious material making up around 26 per cent of the universe.

The researchers combined the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe.
 

'What we get is that our galaxy could really contain one of these tunnels, and that the tunnel could even be the size of the galaxy itself,' said Professor Paulo Salucci, from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy.

“But there's more. We could even travel through this tunnel, since, based on our calculations, it could be navigable. Just like the one we've all seen in the recent film 'Interstellar''.