Recent content by JoeOfTexas

I'm assuming you are talking about using Solar Mass across the board for each star, correct? In my reading, I noticed that stars and black holes come in many different sizes, with stars smaller than our sun being most popular; however, my thinking was that black holes and stars more massive...

I have never seen a breakdown of the mass of the Milky Way, so I attempted to do it myself. My horrible estimates left me with 5x1040 mass of unknown origin, which is about 3% of the overall galaxy's mass. It appears the 3% could be explained if the estimates were a bit more accurate. I'm...

Hello, I am having a competition with up to 60 teams. My idea was to break the 60 teams into 10 groups of 6 teams each and run a Round Robin tournament for each individual group. Simple. Here is my problem: What if less than 60 teams show up to the competition (i.e. 58 teams)...