If gravity pulls everything towards it, why isn’t the Earth getting smaller by being pulled into the middle?

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If gravity pulls everything towards it, why isn’t the Earth getting smaller by being pulled into the middle?

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Atoms do not like to go near each other so they push back. The more you push in from the outside the more they push back, but not forever.

There is a point, when too much stuff is in too little space that it actually does collapse in on itself. We call this a black hole and it looks like this:

https://cdn.eso.org/images/large/eso2208-eht-mwa.jpg