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Nobody know for sure how gravity works, but the most commonly accepted theory is Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Einstein's theory states that spacetime can be distorted. (Spacetime is usually interpreted with space being 3-d consisting of length width and height and time being the fourth dimension.) Any object with a mass curves spacetime. The greater the mass of an object, the more it distorts spacetime. You can think of it as a Basketball and a Bowling ball both on a bed, the bowling ball will obviously sink more into the bed.
Because the spacetime around an object curves around it, other objects will experience a pull by the curvature that the object has formed. For this reason, we experience a pull towards the centre of the Earth and the Earth experiences a pull from the Sun.
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