Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:
If photons do have a super-symmetric partner; the photino and that partner is somehow related to dark matter, why couldn’t a black hole be a congregation of dark matter? The ejection of the “non-dark matter” in these relativistic jets is the only thing we can really measure, isn't it?
It's unlikely that there's much dark matter in a polar jet (or falling into black holes) for the simple reason that there's no mechanism to cause dark matter to either lose or gain energy in the vicinity of a black hole. So it wouldn't form a disc, it wouldn't infall, and it wouldn't be subject to the magnetic effects presumably at the heart of the jet formation mechanism.
What jets are made of is known to some extent: definitely electrons, some light nuclei, and now apparently, some heavier nuclei. Nothing exotic, and really, there's no reason to expect anything exotic.
Thanks too Chris (and et al) - With so many objects in the universe we know little of, it's easy to let a little knowledge and your imagination go wild and hypothesize. What gets "ruled out' based on current science helps narrow down the options of what "could be" and it's great to have a "gravity mechanism" to reel one back to Earth to reboot.
You're always a good source of gravity.
