eli5 Where does the earth’s core get the energy to generate heat from?

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The suns energy is from fusion, fine makes sense.

But the core is a hot spinning liquid metal generating tremendous amounts of heat. Why hasn’t it cooled down? How is it replenishing its energy?

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I assume the tremendous pressure, convection and some radioactive material produce quite some heat

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