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Width doesn't change based on the warping of space
It absolutely does depend on your reference frame. I remember one of my physics 3 test problems was a ship in it's own reference frame was a standard 3 4 5 right triangle. We had to calculate what the observed lengths and angles from a reference frame where it was moving at .96c.