... Tonight's Sky . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Cosmic mirages" confirm accelerated cosmic expansion . ... The accelerated expansion increases the distance to the quasar, giving rise to higher chance of having a massive galaxy close to the light path to produce gravitational lensing. ... This research conducted an enormous survey of gravitationally lensed quasars and adopted much more sophisticated theoretical calculations to build a very convincing case for the accelerated cosmic expansion.т?? . ...