 An early term for the black hole produced by stellar collapse was "collapsar" (short for collapsed star) with the term "black hole" itself being introduced by John Wheeler in 1967 and adopted enthusiastically by science fiction writers.In science fiction stories written up to this date (Early works), black holes are called by a variety of more or less suggestive names, including "black" and "hole" used in isolation; after 1969, almost all works use Wheeler's combined term "black hole.