The context I am referring to is when someone, for instance, comes into contact with something, a subject ( mathematics, archeology or computer science, just to name a few), a religion or a sport, and discovers that he/she has found a new passion, something he/she didn't know before or didn't think it could be so fascinating. Is there an expression or an idiom to describe this ?
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You could describe the event of discovering something as:
Definition: (idiomatic) The moment of a sudden unexpected discovery.
The first eureka moment