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A photino is a supersymmetric partner of the particle called photon according to the SUSY (supersymmetric particles) theory which states that all particles in the observable universe have a supersymmetric partner. The idea of the photino first arose in the 1980s within the supersymmetric particle theory with the help of a physicist called Howard Georgi and his assistant physicists.^[1]