Wormhole A wormhole was a passage which linked two separate points in space - time , usually serving as a shortcut between those two points . Features . Wormholes would disintegrate organic matter . The only way to survive a journey through the wormhole was with a metal shield enclosing the occupants , acting as a Faraday cage . ( TV : " Planet of the Dead " ) Vodium naturally produced energy which created micro - wormholes . ( AUDIO : " Situation Vacant " ) The interior of wormholes , through which interstellar travel could be made , was called " worm space " . ( AUDIO : " Nekromanteia " ) Occurrences . Natural occurrences . There was a wormhole which connected Sentarion and Ruta III . It was closed by the Seventh Doctor in the 26th century . ( PROSE : " Shakedown " ) The Wormhole of Calibri was located near Hazri . ( COMIC : " The Scarecrow " ) In orbit of Agelaos was a wormhole that opened into the Time Vortex . ( PROSE : " The Weeping " ) Artificial occurrences . During the Millennium War , the Osiran s stopped the Mad Mind of Bophemeral from creating a wormhole in the Horsehead Nebula , which would have killed quintillions . ( PROSE : " The Quantum Archangel " ) The Dalek s were capable of creating wormholes . ( COMIC : " Fire and Brimstone " ) They utilised a device known as a Oblivion Continuum , which drew power from a captured wormhole . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) Using Block Transfer Computation s and wormhole technology , the Eleventh Doctor was able to connect the inside of the TARDIS and a safe Harry Houdini was locked inside . ( PROSE : " Houdini and The Space Cuckoos " ) The Spillager s used wormholes to transport their fleets from their home dimension to other worlds . ( AUDIO : " Winter for the Adept " ) Santa Claus used a temporal wormhole generator to send clone s of himself through time in order to deliver presents to all children on Christmas Eve . ( PROSE : " The Man Who ( Nearly ) Killed Christmas " ) The Stingray s travelled from planet to planet through wormholes they created . In 2009 , they created a wormhole between San Helios and Earth , through which the 200 bus arrived . The wormhole was eventually closed by Professor Malcolm Taylor before most of the Stingrays could get through , thus saving the world . Knowing the Stingrays would just generate another wormhole , the Doctor planned to " nudge " them onto uninhabited planets so the Stingrays could consume everything without harming anyone , ( TV : " Planet of the Dead " ) In 2010 , Wanda Rothman ' s team found and accidentally activated a vodium sample . It started creating wormholes at a scientific conference , which pulled in several scientists . The Eighth Doctor and his friends were able to neutralise the vodium . ( AUDIO : " Situation Vacant " ) The Shakri used wormholes to send transmissions to their Shakri cube s on Earth . There was also a wormhole portal in a lift in a London hospital that led to the Shakri ship . ( TV : " The Power of Three " ) The Eleventh Doctor created a device which opened a wormhole to a pocket universe so he could go there and rescue Hila Tacorien . ( TV : " Hide " ) In 2495 , the Aranjia invaded Thelka using a wormhole . ( COMIC : " Blue Skies Thinking " ) Phobos had a wormhole located on its surface . ( AUDIO : " Phobos " ) Brox ' s spaceship began creating wormholes when its engines began to wear out . ( COMIC : " Nowhere Man " ) Bianca ' s was accessed via wormholes which special taxi s drove through . ( AUDIO : " The Wormery " ) Behind the scenes . According to information in " DWBIT " 37 , the Hellmouth wormhole was believed to lead to the galaxy Nosfera II .