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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by pflats on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:18AM (#19624859)
I think you've got a typo here: points should be 0-dimensional.
Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by cuspycode on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:19PM (#19627381)
A point is 0-dimensional, but in a space-time diagram the time dimension is added, which makes it 1-dimensional. Penrose diagrams for black holes assume spherical symmetry, so all of space is represented by a single radial coordinate, which makes it possible to display such diagrams in 1+1=2 dimensions.
Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by codethief on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:02PM (#19629874)
A singularity doesn't have a dimension. It is a portion of spacetime that is missing, not a point or set of points. We can't define its dimensionality, either.(×) What we can say is that the singularity in Schwarzschild black holes is spacelike.

×) Counterexample: Consider the manifold M := R³\B, where B is the closed unit ball, equipped with the standard Euclidean metric. This manifold is certainly not Cauchy-complete and we can reach the singularity at r=1 in finite time. Now, if we had to define the dimension of the singularity, what dimension n should it have? n=2 (a sphere)? Maybe. At least we could extend M by the unit sphere to make it complete. But could the singularity also be a point (i.e. n=1)? Yes, certainly. By diffeomorphism invariance, we could simply find new coordinates and map R³\B to R³\{0}, so the singularity would suddenly become a point. So, as you can see, interpreting the singularity as a point or set of points that have a topological dimension doesn't work.

Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by curlypaul924 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:42AM (#19625144)
Are you sure it's a typo?

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/194947

(I'm not a physicist.)

Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by checkyoursudo on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:51AM (#19625243)
I believe the previous poster is referring to a typo following from this:

>A black hole itself (the singularity) is 1 dimensional - a single infinitesimal point.

In Euclidean geometry,

A cube is 3 dimensions.

A plane is 2 dimensions.

A line is 1 dimension.

A point is ...

Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by codethief on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:11PM (#19629912)
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is a legitimate question. However, in this particular case, I think the final sentence of the accepted answer on Physics.SE, namely that

> In this diagram the singularity is a line in spacetime i.e. a one dimensional object in spacetime.

is wrong or at least very misleading – the answer does (correctly) say that asking for the "dimensionality of a singularity […] is a meaningless question because the spacetime geometry is undefined at a singularity".