To show that any compact subgroup of $C^*$ is a subset of unit circle.

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Let $C^*$ denotes the multiplicative group of complex numbers different from zero and $T^*$ be the subgroup of all $z\in C^*$ such that $|z|=1$. Prove that if $G$ is a subgroup of $C^*$ which is compact (as a set of complex numbers), then $G\subset T^*.$

I started to prove it with contradiction but couldn't reach in the result. How can I solve it?

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Suppose that it is not contained in $T^*$, there exists $z\in G$ such that $|z|\neq 1$ you have $|z|$ or $|z|^{-1}>1$, if $|z|>1$, $|z|^n$ is not bounded this implies that $G$ is not bounded contradiction since a compact subset of $\mathbb{C}$ is bounded. If $|z|^{-1}>1$, apply the same argument.