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\subsection{Hubble's Constant}
Reference: Zeilik, Gregory \& Smith, Introductory Astronomy \& Astrophysics,
Chapter 22.
The universe is expanding; Observations of distant galaxies made by Edwin Hubble in the 1920s turned up an interesting fact:
that every galaxy is moving away from every other galaxy, and the further
apart two galaxies
are apart, are,
the faster they are receding from each other.
This
observation is
known as Hubble's Law, after explained by realising that the
famous American astronomer who discovered velocity is due to the expansion of the
space
between galaxies, rather than relative motion between the galaxies, i.e. the Universe
back in is expanding.
A common analogy is how the
1920's. It distance between two points drawn on an uninflated balloon increases
as the balloon is blown up.
This is known as Hubble's Law, and it can be
written as: expressed as
\begin{equation}
v = H_0 d
\label{eq:hubble}
\end{equation}
\noindent
where $v$ is the
apparent recessional velocity
of a galaxy at
which something is moving away from us, $d$ its a distance
$d$
from us, and the constant $H_0$ is known as Hubble's constant.
$H_0$ has the interesting units of km/s/Mpc (provided $v$ and $d$ are given in
km/s and Mpc respectively), which implies that the further away an object
is from us the faster its recessional velocity.
This
means that the Hubble constant
is basically a measure of tells us how
fast quickly the
Universe space in between galaxies is expanding.
If it is large,
then the
universe Universe is
growing like crazy. expanding rapidly.
We are going to use the distance we measured to the Hydra I cluster to estimate $H_0$.
We have already measured the distance $d$ to Hydra I. Now we need the
velocity at which it is rushing away from us $v$. This is measured using