Supersymmetry is a key component in understanding what dark matter is and what it is composed of. Like the standard model, it predicts all the possible particles and how the particles interact and what they’re composed of. Supersymmetry predicts that there is a partner particle to every particle in the Standard Model. In this model, supersymmetry pairs bosons with a supersymmetric fermion pair and each fermion is paired with a supersymmetric boson pair. For example, as you can see in Figure 2, the gluon has a supersymmetric partner called the gluon and the supersymmetric partner for the Quark is the Squark. The fermionic partner has an -ino suffix and the bosonic pair gets the s- prefix. So, the electron (a fermion) has a supersymmetric partner (a boson) called the selectron. (5, 7, 8)