She built her own airplane, had her work cited by Stephen Hawking, and still flies under the radar

4 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short narrated by Dan Novaes, the remarkable story of Sabrina Gonzalez Pustersky is presented. At 16, she designed, built, and flew her own single‑engine airplane to explore physics hands‑on. Her curiosity led her to MIT, where she graduated at the top of her class, and then to Harvard, where she earned a PhD in theoretical physics focusing on gravity, spacetime, and black holes. By age 21, her research was cited by Stephen Hawking, earning early recognition. Despite recruitment attempts from tech magnates like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, she declined, choosing to pursue a radical theory called celestial holography—a proposal that the universe stores information holographically. This blend of engineering daring, academic brilliance, and pioneering theoretical work leads some to label her the "next Einstein," though she remains largely unknown. The video ends with a call to follow the UBK channel for more entrepreneurial stories.

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This woman built her own airplane at 16, had her work cited by Stephen Hawking, and most people have never heard of her. Her name is Sabrina Gonzalez Pustersky, and her story sounds fake, but it's real. As a teenager, she was obsessed with understanding how things work. Not in theory, in real life. So she designed, built and flew her own single engine airplane just to understand physics firsthand. That obsession took her to mit, where she graduated at the top of her class. Then to Harvard, where she earned a PhD in theoretical physics, the same field that once belonged to Einstein. Her research focuses on gravity, spacetime, and black holes. Questions so obscur, abstract, most people never even encounter them. And she was so good that Stephen Hawking cited her work when she was only 21. Tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos tried to recruit him. She said no. Instead, she's focused on a radical idea called celestial holography, a theory that could explain how information is stored in the universe itself. That's why people call her the next Einstein. Not because she's famous, but because she's trying to solve the hardest questions in existence. For more entrepreneurial stories and information like this, follow ubk.