Wormhole

"There is the possibility that this could be the precursor to the opening of an Einstein-Rosen bridge."
"A what-what bridge?"
"An Einstein-Rosen bridge, also known as a wormhole. In layman's terms, a portal to another universe opening below the ozone layer."

―Phil Coulson and Nick Fury^[src]

A wormhole (also known as an Einstein-Rosen Bridge) is a special portal or tunnel created to quickly travel from one place to another, no matter the distance between them. In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that would be, fundamentally, a "shortcut" through spacetime.

History

"A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space; we're standing three hundred feet below it."

―Tony Stark^[src]

In 1945, when Johann Schmidt took the Tesseract with his bare hand, the Space Stone within created a wormhole which transported him to Vormir. At the beginning of the 21st century, Jane Foster was researching wormholes and studied the possibility of them.

The wormhole that opened during the Battle of New York

After Thor destroyed the Rainbow Bridge generating Asgard's Bifrost Bridge, the dimensional energy of the latter created a wormhole, causing Loki to travel throughout the galaxy before ending up at the Sanctuary, encountering Thanos and The Other. When the Avengers battled the Chitauri in the Battle of New York, the invaders came to Earth through a wormhole created by the Space Stone inside the Tesseract.

During the 2013 Convergence, many wormholes opened up around the Nine Realms, all coming together in Greenwich. Malekith attempted to use the Aether to destroy reality with these wormholes, but was stopped by Thor, Darcy Lewis, Jane Foster, and Erik Selvig. In 2015, after using the Avengers' Quinjet to leave Earth, Hulk flew into space and came across a wormhole, which transported him to Sakaar.

Since ancient times, the group that would later be known as HYDRA kept a Kree artifact: a Monolith that was originally intended to defeat Inhumans, and regularly sent human sacrifices through it to another planet to appease Hive, an exiled but powerful Inhuman. During the War against the Inhumans, the Inhumans become aware that S.H.I.E.L.D. had the Monolith and attempted to recover and destroy it. After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D. kept it from the crippled Inhuman population of Afterlife. Agent Jemma Simmons was swallowed by the Monolith, quickly prompting her partner Leo Fitz to track down every myth and every possibility surrounding the Monolith. Eventually with the help of the Asgardian Elliot Randolph, S.H.I.E.L.D. managed to retrieve Jemma Simmons and caused the stone to explode. However, Gideon Malick procured different fragments and, using the instruments within an English castle, created a wormhole for Grant Ward to retrieve Hive. Chasing Ward, Phil Coulson entered the Wormhole also. Ultimately, S.H.I.E.L.D. led an Attack on the HYDRA Castle, retrieved Coulson and Fitz, who was also sent through the wormhole to Maveth, and destroyed the castle; however, Hive traveled through the wormhole, using the corpse of Ward.

When Thor and Loki dueled with Hela on the Bifrost Bridge, she managed to throw the two out of it and they both were caught in wormholes which brought them to Sakaar. Later, the two, together with Hulk and Valkyrie, escaped the planet by flying the Commodore through Sakaar's largest wormhole, the Devil's Anus.

Gallery

A wormhole created by the Tesseract

A wormhole created by the Tesseract

The wormhole above New York

The Chitauri invade New York

A Leviathan enters through a wormhole

The Chitauri Command Center being destroyed

Iron Man falling out of the wormhole

The Convergence wormhole

The Monolith wormhole

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The Devil's Anus

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External Links

• Wormhole on Wikipedia