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Hubble constant

No change in size, 19:58, November 27, 2011
There's no c in the definition of H0
After astronomers realised that the universe is expanding they introduced the '''Hubble constant''' as the measure of speed of this expansion as a ratio of assumed recession velocity of galaxies to their distance. The '''Hubble constant''' equals approximately, for <math>v<<\ll c</math>
:<math>H_oH_0=v/c/r</math>,
where <math>v</math> is assumed speed of recession of a galaxy, <math>c</math>, speed of light in vacuum, combined with <math>v</math> producing ''"redshift"'' <math>Z=v/c</math>, and <math>r</math> is distance from the observer to the observed galaxy, and its exact value turned out to be
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