In physics and astronomy, the Reissner–Nordström metric is a static solution to the Einstein-Maxwell field equations, which corresponds to the gravitational field of a charged, non-rotating, spherically symmetric body of mass M.
The metric was discovered by Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström.
These four related solutions may be summarized by the following table:
where Q represents the body's electric charge and J represents its spin angular momentum.
In spherical coordinates (t, r, θ, φ), the line element for the Reissner–Nordström metric is
where c is the speed of light, t is the time coordinate (measured by a stationary clock at infinity), r is the radial coordinate, is a 2-sphere defined by
rS is the Schwarzschild radius of the body given by
and rQ is a characteristic length scale given by
Here 1/4πε0 is Coulomb force constant.