A charged body is surrounded by what type of field?

A charged body is surrounded by an electric field, which is created by the presence of the charge itself. The electric field is a region around a charged object where other charged objects experience a force. This field can influence the motion of other charges, attracting or repelling them based on their own charge. In a practical context, if you were to place a positive charge near a negatively charged body, the electric field would dictate that the positive charge is attracted toward the negative charge, illustrating the effect of the electric field in action.

While magnetic fields, gravitational fields, and electromagnetic fields do exist, they are not the direct fields associated with a charged body on its own. A magnetic field arises from moving charges (current), while a gravitational field affects objects with mass, and an electromagnetic field combines both electric and magnetic fields but is typically associated with changing electric fields or moving charges. Thus, the presence of a charge primarily manifests in an electric field surrounding it.