SMRTR TechJun 15, 2026Scientific American

How an aspiring actress from Brooklyn stumbled into an astrophysics career at NASA

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Erini Lambrides grew up in Brooklyn dreaming of acting, but stumbled into astrophysics after randomly picking up Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time at her performing arts high school. Despite failing her first college physics class, she pushed through and now studies supermassive black holes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, investigating mysterious early-universe objects called "little red dots" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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