– How do gas giants not have a surface? Where do asteroids and comets go when they get sucked in? What’s at the center of a gas giant?

Question

This has always baffled me. I can’t really understand how they could just not have a surface no matter how far down you go. Obviously gravity has to pull the gasses together into some more dense form eventually… right?

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Answer 1

Think of it like a diver hitting the surface of a pool the gas atmosphere is like the water the asteroid sinks to the bottom and there is likely to be a relatively small rocky core at the bottom which eventually the asteroid will reach.